Connect - Discover interesting topics to explore and connect them to your prior knowledge.

• Miss Willems can guide you to books and web resources on broad topics to help you find an interesting research topic

Wonder - Ask questions about a topic, and make hypotheses and predictions. 

• Check out this source on constructing effective hypothesis statements. 

Investigate - Find and evaluate information from resources.

• This is the stage where you start researching! Consider using Brittanica Kids, Gale Database, or Google Scholar.

Construct - Construct new understandings, connect to prior knowledge, draw conclusions about hypotheses

• Check your gathered information against your original hypotheses. Draw conclusions and form new hypotheses as needed. Consider visiting the library to learn how you can find additional sources of information. 

Express - Learn how to present the information you learned to others. 

• Essays, Google Slide presentations, and physical models are all great ways to present your research to others. Check out this guide on how to make more effective slide presentations. 

Reflect - Assess what you have learned and how you will put it into practice, and formulate new questions and hypotheses.

• Are there ways you want to put your newly gained insights into practice? Maybe making changes in your own life, sharing what you've learned with people beyond your class, or starting up a new initiative like a club or action committee to make wider change?