Short Research Projects
Grade 5 - Writing - Challenge Me
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Which research question is focused enough for a short project about school recycling?
- Is school recycling good?
- Why are facts facts?
- How does clear labels would help students sort waste correctly?
- What is everything about history?
Which note should be kept for research about school recycling?
- The signs are okay.
- I saw a bottle. I tossed it. It was wrong.
- During a lunch audit, half of the recyclable bottles were placed in the trash.
- Lunch starts at 12:10.
Which source would be most useful for this fact: Announcements are easier to understand when events are grouped by date and audience.
- Museum Exhibit Guide, page 7
- School Communication Notes, page 5
- Library Innovation Report, page 4
- School Garden Study, page 12
Which habit helps avoid copying in research notes?
- paraphrase the fact and record the source
- delete all source titles
- copy whole pages without a source
- use only memory
Why should research notes stay organized by subtopic?
- so related evidence can be grouped in the final draft
- so sources are impossible to find
- so the topic changes each paragraph
- so evidence becomes opinion