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Steps to creating PBATs & I-Search LEAPs for CAS Students
Steps to creating PBATs & I-Search LEAPs for CAS Students
Connect
Connect
What do you CONNECT with?
What interests you the most about your topic or internship?
What do you already know?
What else would you like to know?
BRAINSTORM:
Start collecting sources and keywords on a GoogleDoc. Use Tools>Citations to start creating a list of sources.
Be choosy. Only cite what is USEFUL. Try to find new search terms or keywords to create new searches...to get closer to what you care about.
RESEARCH:
RESEARCH:
Britannica Encyclopedia – Choose your level: Elem, Middle, High School and listen while you read.
Wikipedia pages are written at a college reading level. The list of references is always a good source of other sitessearch.follettsoftware.com/metasearch/ui/36256
Books at the City-As Library catalog Tip: Use the index or table of contents to read ONLY the pages about your topic
Khan Academy and Crash Courses or videos on Youtube and Vimeo. Add the search term “documentary.”
Podcasts or google your search terms and add the word "podcasts."
Open Culture or CosmoLearning have free courses
Wonder
Wonder
What do you wonder about your topic?
What are the key players or experts saying about your topic?
What are some of the key components of your topic?
Research is a conversation: What questions do YOU have?
When READING & DEVELOPING your research question, look for:
patterns and relationships,
cause and effect,
changes over time,
the effect on different groups of people
WRITE & PLAN
Resources
Resources
When READING & DEVELOPING your research question, look for:
patterns and relationships,
cause and effect,
changes over time,
the effect on different groups of people
RESEARCHING/READING
RESEARCHING/READING
Types of Sources
Primary sources are made at the time of the event such as all journal entries, interviews, and photographs or video taken at your internships. Look for historical ones on library or museum sites.
Secondary sources are what people write or film after the fact. Articles, books, and documentaries are secondary sources. Use databases.
Practice lateral reading: Open up another tab & ask yourself: “Who is behind this information?” What is their purpose?"
Use sites like Snopes.com to fact check any information that is hate- or fear-inducing.
Construct
Construct
What insights and connections have you had? These can inform the structure of your essay.
Lay out how you're going to write your essay
Lay out how you're going to write your essay
Are you including multiple perspectives or more than one point of view? What about the voices of under-represented groups? Youth? Immigrants? A Global perspective?
Have you viewed both liberal and conservative sources? Have you looked at the issues from all sides? If so, you can easily develop a counter-argument.
What facts or stats could you use to build or counter your argument? See below for good sites to find statistics. Or use the Opposing Viewpoints database.
Here are some graphic organizers you can use as your outline:
If you are not writing an essay, how will you share your research?
Are you going to tell it as a story and create a narrative essay? Describe a process? Create a documentary? a brochure? an annotated map? an info-graphic? Did you storyboard it by creating thumbnail sketches? Here is a great list of ideas!
Express
Express
Do your paragraphs have your own thinking as well as quoted or paraphrased information?
Do your visuals tell the story you want told? Do they add another layer to the words you carefully chose?
Did you cite your sources? Our Citations Made Easy website will teach you the steps for using the Citation Tool (Tools>Citations) on your GoogleDoc.
Reflect
Reflect
Before you share your work:
What new questions do you have about your topic?
Did you change your thesis as you learned more?
What will you do differently next time you have to do research?
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