12.05 - Using Questions to Start Searches

We started today's class with everyone working in their project teams to type up the research questions and sub-questions that teams generated yesterday after reviewing the LHS Research Guide documents on these areas. Groups then also worked to brainstorm relevant search terms that would help them find relevant information for their topics.

These pages were shared with me on Google Docs so that I could share them with the rest of the project team members and everyone would have access to them. If you need access to these documents, please contact Mr. Collins at ccollins@lisbonschoolsme.org .

We then reviewed these questions and search terms as a class to revise and edit them as well as to help give people a stronger sense of what makes an effective question. In this discussion I also addressed using search terms to find relevant information and then looking through good sources for other key words to use in future sources.

Researchers can also be thought of as "Information Predators."

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We then went down to the computer lab and everyone had time to start trying out some of their search terms.


Homework:

Practice your Poetry Out Loud poem.

 

Work associated with your project as appropriate.  

 

Complete missing work and revise any assignment that scored below a 92.

 

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