Re-Searching

Research is the idea that hiding out there is a bunch of information already discovered and written about your topic. Someone has already searched for the answers...and found them! 

They are the experts! 

Then they wrote stuff about it (or made a video, podcast, book, website...etc.) to share with an audience of people. Their audience when they published the work determined how they wrote it.

If the audience was little kids, they would have lots of pictures, easy words, and simple sentences. It would be the dumbed down version of their research so little kids can understand.

If the audience is university professors, it'll have higher level of vocabulary, sentence structure, and diction (word choice) that matches the background and expertise of professors in that field.

Same material, just written differently!

How do you find information at your level?

Perfecting Google searches:

1. try adding "for kids" after your search topic, or "Grade 8" or "simplified" to help narrow down the search field.

2. try breaking it down into smaller chunks. Instead of "the rise of islam" try "how did islam start, for kids"

3. once you find an article, see if the page allows you to adjust the reading level. Or copy paste it into Chat GPT and ask for it to write it more simplified for Grade 8. *This is juts so you can read and understand it better... so you can summarize it in your own words!

4. if an AI summary looks useful: follow it's links embedded into the summary and get info from the original source.

5. use some NEW TOOLS...