2016 Investigation
2000 words in 10 weeks = 200 words per week 2 x 100 minute lessons per week = 1 word per minute!
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SECONDARY SOURCES
- How will you be keeping track of your sources so you can include in-text referencing in your report?
- Don't you dare just put your focus question into Google! Be a Google Power User and extend yourself beyond obvious search results.
- If you are using Wikipedia as your starting point, can you use the article's references to spider out into more respected sources?
- How can you incorporate at least one secondary source that isn't online?
- Now is the time to arrange for material to be posted to you or do any online shopping!
We will be going on an excursion to the City of Playford library at the Stretton Centre in week 1 to find out how to access quality secondary sources beyond our school library and Google searches in the classroom.
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If MOC or the Stretton Library doesn't have a copy of Issues in Society that is relevant to your topic, please consult the April 2016 catalogue and let Ms Grant know ASAP if you wish to order a particular book.
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PRIMARY SOURCES
These are essential for a passing grade but take planning.
You could interview one or more experts. You can negotiate to use a S&C lesson to do this in person, with parental permission. You should interview someone after doing most of your secondary source research, so that you are asking him or her for information you can't obtain another way or getting help with dead ends.
Surveys should only be undertaken if they will help you get data that means something for your research. We will be avoiding internet based surveys of your peers and discussing the possibility of a "consultation fest" with other classes as per the City of Playford youth consultation day attended by Jasmine G., Daniel H., Nick L. and Courtney P. on behalf of our classes in Term 1.
Field work is another option, for example: photographs, maps, measurements, media collections, etc. We will discuss in class how observations might be relevant to your focus and guiding questions.
You could interview one or more experts. You can negotiate to use a S&C lesson to do this in person, with parental permission. You should interview someone after doing most of your secondary source research, so that you are asking him or her for information you can't obtain another way or getting help with dead ends.
Surveys should only be undertaken if they will help you get data that means something for your research. We will be avoiding internet based surveys of your peers and discussing the possibility of a "consultation fest" with other classes as per the City of Playford youth consultation day attended by Jasmine G., Daniel H., Nick L. and Courtney P. on behalf of our classes in Term 1.
Field work is another option, for example: photographs, maps, measurements, media collections, etc. We will discuss in class how observations might be relevant to your focus and guiding questions.
SELF-GUIDED SUPPORT
MOC has six copies of this guide that you may wish to consult during the term.
Adelaide Tuition Centre Society & Culture: How to Write an Effective Investigative Assignment Third Edition |