LESSON 11.3 SkillBuilder: Investigating contemporary Civics and Citizenship issues
LEARNING INTENTION By the end of this lesson you should be able to: • write inquiry questions for investigations in Civics and Citizenship • create organised notes.
In Year 7 you will learn how to break a topic into smaller parts that make it easier to locate relevant information and/or data from a range of appropriate sources. As you break the topic into smaller parts, you will learn how to formulate inquiry questions and use these as the basis investigating and note-taking. 11.3.1 Tell me Research means investigating a topic or event and collecting information to help you understand it indetail. To conduct a thorough investigation, it is important to have guiding questions (inquiry questions). Simply searching for key terms online can return a lot of information, but not all of it will be relevant. Inquiry questions help narrow down the information to what is directly relevant to your research. Additionally, it is essential to use and review information in order for our brain to retain it. This process helps transfer information from short-term to long-term memory. Taking notes by hand can aid in retaining information, whether listening to a teacher, watching a documentary, reading a textbook or researching online. The Cornell note-taking method, developed by Professor Walter Pauk at Cornell University provides a structured approach to note-taking and collecting information for your investigation. This method can be used for both revision and research purposes. Pauk’s method includes the ‘5 Rs’ of note-taking: record, reduce, recite, reþect and review (see FIGURE1 ).
Jacaranda Humanities Alive 7 Victorian Curriculum Third Edition
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