Level Two Research

Learning Intention: develop your research skills to find, select and record relevant information that you then synthesise into a coherent understanding based on issues from your reading / viewing in class this year.

Success Criteria: you will have been successful when you have:

- you have developed a research proposal that has a testable hypothesis and three inquiry questions based off your
- you have found and chosen at least SIX sources of information that are across at least two different mediums (ie visual, written, oral)
- you have taken notes that answer your questions from your sources in an ethical way
- you have though and written about whether each of your sources are useful and reliable
- you have synthesised, or brought together, all of your information to come to conclusions about each of your inquiry questions and your hypothesis overall; these conclusions may be presented in a number of ways.
- Here is the Level Two standard, THE TASK and the Level Two Exemplars to help you understand further what you are aiming for

Section 1 - What are research skills?

Research skills are life long skills that you absolutely need for the rest of your life. Research is simply the act of finding and reading / watching information that answers a question for you.

But there is a real knack to doing it well. You need to think where you can get the best information, if you have got the right information, whether you have enough information, and if you yourself are open to finding information that you didn't necessarily agree with.

Section 2 - Why are research skills important?

Research skills are important so that you don't accept FAKE NEWS as fact
Research skills are important so that when you come across a problem, you know what to do to help you figure it out
Below is an example from a former student of Waitara High School discussing the importance of not taking someone's word for it, make sure you're listening to the experts

These Photos Show How Easy it is to Create 'Fake News' with PhotographyA Danish photo news agency recently tasked two of its photogs with creating a series that shows how easy it is to lie through photography. By shooting

'All that glitters is not gold'

This is a quote from Shakespeare and it is very relevant 400 years after he wrote it. When he wrote this, in the play The Merchant of Venice, he was referring to a character that could not be trusted to tell the truth. Today, that character is the media - you can't always trust that it is telling the truth.

Consider this story on the left from Waitara High Student Claire Nickson, who was our Dux, from when she worked for the Met Service (this story is taken directly from her facebook page with her permission).

This means that you have to carefully check your facts and check if can trust the source. For example, if a story in the newspaper ever says that they asked Weatherwatch for information, I won't trust it, 'cause they aren't experts.

Watch this BBC story on fake Coronavirus news and how it spreads as well the story about how easy it is to make photographic evidence do what you want it to do.

Coronavirus: How can you stop an 'infodemic'?Think before you share and check the source are among the tips the public is being urged to adopt.

Section 3 - How to do research

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Step one: pull an issue out of your text

Watch this video on how to pull an issue out of your text for Level 2 Research.
If you have any further questions on this, check in with your teacher.

Step two - The research process

Remind yourself of the research process by using the link here.

STOP!

CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING BY COMPLETING THIS

GOOGLE QUIZ

Be sure to check your answers after you complete the quiz.

At Level 2, you need to use higher level texts with more academic vocabulary and concepts. Here are some places you can look:
Templates to help you will have been assigned through your Google Classroom

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