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Day 6 · Why scientists need different contributionsYear 6 Science · T1 W1–2 · Day 6 lesson

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Year 6 / Science / Term 1 / Weeks 01 02

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Wanted outcome: a sourced reason for collaboration, beyond “teamwork is good”. Prepare: FACT1 and FACT3 full cards, contribution headings and blank paper.

0–3: ask what a biologist and sensor designer might each contribute. 3–9 model: use FACT1’s historical project to join biological questions, comparable environmental measurements and sensing/computing design. Explain why no single contribution supplies all the evidence. It was a reported prototype plan at its stated date, not proof of today’s installation. 9–21: choose a route. 21–27: compare interpretations against the exact source card; distinguish an invented role from an actually named contribution. 27–30 exit: give a contribution and why another contribution mattered. If only “more people”, join an expertise to the problem it helps address.