Week 10/11
How do we tackle a research assignment?
How do we tackle a research assignment?
I can identify the command terms in an assignment and understand how to answer the specific command terms in the research assignment.
I can use a rubric to guide how to to answer the command terms.
I can identify key search terms.
I can identify and extract information from strong sources.
I can summarise the information coherently, using technical and scientific language where necessary.
I can record those sources in a bibliography using Harvard style formatting.
Literacy & research
Define "Biodiversity". Analyse in the context of healthy resilient ecosystems.
Identify and explain the greatest threat to biodiversity in Australia and focus on a specific ecosystem
Provide a specific example of how scientific technology or knowledge is being applied to address the identified threat.
Analyse the positive and negative impacts of this scientific intervention, focusing on either the environment, economy, or society.
Use technical language e.g. habitat, species, interdependence, food webs, trophic levels, sustainability, resilience.
Create a bibliography of at least 3 different types of sources using Harvard formatting
Knowledge and understanding
Use your research skills to begin the essay - survey what is required - read Student Services Study Skills recommendations below.
Make highlights on the assessment task and break down the task into smaller pieces - the assignment scaffold will do that for you as well.
Only once you have clearly seen what is required do you start your googling. Begin by defining Diversity, and how that impacts ecosystem health. Make dot points on the scaffold and keep track of your links - they will be needed later to make the bibliography. DO NOT JUST INSERT LINKS INTO THE BIBLIOGRAPHY BY THEMSELVES. (See the rubric!)
This is from the Student Services page - opens up every time you open Chrome. Worth reading!
Identify the command terms in the assignment - what do they mean?
Investigation skills
Use the Water is Life Pathfinder and the skills gained in the library lesson to research the way scientific knowledge is used to address specific threats to an Australian ecosystem.
Analyse positives and negatives of this use of technology.
Literacy & research
Turn your dot points into sentences and paragraphs. Keep the word limit in mind and decide how many words you should use for each paragraph.
Use technical language
Document your sources completely.