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Research Your Topic

Research Your Topic. All good scientists conduct background research before they experiment. STEPS: Review Your Question Identify key words and topics Develop questions to ask Research to find answers Cite your sources!. Questions. Think of questions that use these prompts: Who How

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Research Your Topic

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  1. Research Your Topic

  2. All good scientists conduct background research before they experiment STEPS: • Review Your Question • Identify key words and topics • Develop questions to ask • Research to find answers • Cite your sources!

  3. Questions • Think of questions that use these prompts: • Who • How • Why • What

  4. Example: • My question: Why are kids getting sick on pizza day • Key Words: Students, pizza, illness, food sickness • Who Question: who is responsible for deciding how pizza should be cooked? Who invented pizza? Who decided pizza could be served in school

  5. 4. How questions: How was pizza invented? How do schools decide what to serve 5. Why questions: Why do some foods make people sick? Why do some people have food allergies? 6. What questions: What are the main ingredients in pizza? What are the foods that most commonly make people sick?

  6. Once you have questions, find answers doing research: Research Sites: -The library (use their research software) -The internet -Google Scholar http://askatechteacher.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/20-great-research-websites-for-kids/ http://www.kidsites.com/sites-edu/science.htm http://www.vineland.org/mennies/kids_favorites.htm DO NOT USE: yahoo answers, wikipedia, google search

  7. Citing Sources • There are many formal ways to cite your sources, for this project you may. • 1. Write Title and Author of any book or magazine article • 2. Write out URL for any website

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