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Inquiry booklet

Name:  
Project due:  

Products:

  • The completed planning sheet.
  • The completed research log.
  • Rough notes of information found from at least 3 different sources. These may be recorded in this pathfinder or on refill etc, and stapled to it.
  • Any other rough notes, photocopied or printed source material, stapled to this pathfinder.
  • The rough draft of your answers (either done in this pathfinder, or on refill and attached)
  • A bibliography (list of details of all sources used, including publication details of books, and full website addresses) – this can be part of your report or attached separately.
  • The completed self assessments along with your essay and final product (either: Powerpoint, booklet, poster, speech)

Achievement Objectives for Social Studies:

AO L4: Understand how exploration and innovation create opportunities and challenges for people, places, and environments

AO L5: Understand how people’s management of resources impacts on environmental and social sustainability.

Achievement Objectives for English:

  • Show an increasing understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences.
  • Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies purposefully and confidently to identify, form, and express increasingly sophisticated ideas.

Specific Learning Outcomes

Literacy Outcomes:

  • use their writing to explain concepts, processes, phenomena, theories, principles, beliefs, and opinions (their own and other people’s) that are relevant to the curriculum task
  • use language, text structures, and media that are appropriate for their purpose
  • Use key vocabulary in oral and written responses

Social Studies Outcomes:

  • Describe factors putting pressure on the environment
  • Explain the consequences of pressure on the environment
  • Understand different points of view on an environmental issue

Essay Question: Explain why…………is an issue, the causes of the issue and ways in which this issue could be solved.

My research topic is:
 
 
I have chosen this topic because:
 
 
 
 
My research focus questions are:
1.
 
2.
 
3.
 
4.
 

Keywords: (These are the words you will use to search for information)

Resources: (What kinds of resources might I use?)

What I have to hand in:

  • This Pathfinder document – completed.
  • All rough notes and any photocopied or printed pages from sources I find, with my highlighting or underlining on them

My report, which can be a written report, or a powerpoint presentation or a poster, but must answer all questions fully.

Audience:

My teacher, parents and class, the wider Otaki Community.
My personal goals for this project:
 
 
 

Planning my time:

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Weekend
Week
         
Week
         
Week
         

Research Log (How I used my time)

Date What I did
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Source Number 1: (Record all details of the source in this box e.g. website address, author, publisher and date etc. You must have at least 3 sources. You can have more if you want. If you use more than 5, record the details on refill and attach them)

Question 1:

Question 2:

Question 3:

Question 4:

Source Number 2: Record all details of the source in this box e.g. website address, author, publisher and date etc

Question 1:

Question 2:

Question 3:

Question 4:

Source Number 3: Record all details of the source in this box e.g. website address, author, publisher and date etc

Question 1:

Question 2:

Question 3:

Question 4:

Source Number 4: Record all details of the source in this box e.g. website address, author, publisher and date etc

Question 1:

Question 2:

Question 3:

Question 4:

Source Number 5: Record all details of the source in this box e.g. website address, author, publisher and date etc

Question 1:

Question 2:

Question 3:

Question 4:

DRAFTING THE ROUGH COPY OF THE REPORT: This is where you combine together all the information you have found out from the different sources.

INTRODUCTION [In your introduction say what your topic is, what your key questions are, and why you chose this topic]:

QUESTION 1 [Summarise here in your own words the information you found out from all your sources about your first question].

QUESTION TWO [Summarise here in your own words the information you found out from all your sources about your second question]:

QUESTION THREE [Summarise here in your own words the information you found out from all your sources about your third question]:

QUESTION FOUR [Summarise here in your own words the information you found out from all your sources about your fourth question]:

CONCLUSION [Write a short conclusion commenting on the main things you found out and why you found them interesting, and any other comments you want to make about your research project]:

BIBLIOGRAPHY [List all the sources you used, including all the detail you recorded in the box at the top of each source information sheet].

Now, using this draft, do the good copy of your report, either handwritten on refill, or typed as a word document, or made into a powerpoint presentation or detailed poster or written as a speech. You can also use this draft to complete the essay.

CHECKLIST

Before you hand in your research inquiry project, check that you have:

  • Completed the planning sheet.
  • Completed the research log.
  • Included rough notes of information found from at least 3 different sources.
  • Attached any other rough notes, photocopied or printed source material.
  • Included the rough draft of your report.
  • Attached the good copy of your report (or a printout of your powerpoint) which answers all four focus questions. If you have done a powerpoint also get your teacher to save a copy on her/his flashdrive;
  • Included a bibliography (list of details of all sources used) – this can be part of your report or attached separately.
  • Completed the self-assessments.

Published on: 16 Dec 2010

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