Congratulations! You have learned how to define your topic of interest; you understand what you know and wonder about; you have thought about where to find your answers; you have located your answers; when you blogged, you reflected on what you have done; and now you have presented your new learning.
Many teachers call this the Big6© method.
Finally! You have answered the Explorations questions and you have finished your research. Now you may tell us what new things you have discovered through your research. Take your finished word document and copy and paste it into the comment space below. Take pride in your best work and in your accomplishment.
Read my post very carefully and follow the directions.
Through the end of the trimester you have been focusing on a topic that interests you. This blog entry will look at part of the research process. The first part was to choose a topic that you like. Think about your topic. What problems did you have? Problems I had with my topic were……..
–an example: I chose Ice Hockey for my topic. The problem I had with this topic were that I already know everything about ice hockey so I couldn’t think of any questions.
You have filled out a K-W chart. Looking at your chart, please write about some part of your topic that you wanted to know more about. I wanted to know more about…….
–an example: I like Ice Hockey. I looked at my K-W chart and saw that I don’t know much about women’s ice hockey. I wonder if there will ever be a woman on an NHL team.
After deciding on two questions to research, you were asked to look in books and online to find answers. What kinds of resources were most helpful to you? The kinds of resources that were most helpful to me were…
