Connect
What ideas/topics interest you? What are you CURIOUS about? How can you CONNECT with a topic?
- Connect lesson PowerPoint Learn more about the first stage of the research process.
- Connect Extend Challange Use this guide to help you broaden your thinking during presearch
Wonder
What QUESTIONS do you have? Which one is MOST COMPELLING? Is your Research Question too BROAD or too NARROW for the assignment?
- Wonder lesson PowerPoint Click here to learn more about the WONDER stage.
- Question Starts Use this to help you brainstorm questions on your topic
- Research Topic PossibilitiesHaving trouble picking a research topics? Here are some questions to get you started. Make sure the question you pick is or can be developed into a higher order question.
- Narrow Your Research Topic Some more tips on narrowing a too-broad research topic
Investigate
Where can you find RELIABLE information? Does your research lead to any NEW questions?
- Investigate lesson PowerPoint Find out more about where to find and evaluate sources, an important part of the investigate stage, in this lesson.
- The CRAAP test handout How can you tell if your information is VALID, USEFUL, and RELIABLE?
Construct
What possible ANSWERS has your research produced? What are your own CONCLUSIONS?
- Construct lesson PowerPoint Learn more about how to synthesize information in the construct stage.
Express
How will you PRESENT what you have learned?
- Express lesson PowerPoint What are some 21st century tools you can use to best express your research? Learn more here!
Reflect
How is the research process going? What is working and what is not? How can you APPLY this information in your life?
Stripling Model of Inquiry
The Question Matrix
Reading a Text
- How to Find the Main IdeaFrom Saddleback College
How Search Works from Google
Organization Tools
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