Short Research Projects
Grade 5 - Writing - On Level
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Which research question is focused enough for a short project about field trip planning?
- Is field trip planning good?
- Why are facts facts?
- How does museum exhibits would provide primary-source details?
- What is everything about history?
Which note should be kept for research about library makerspaces?
- The library has windows.
- I built a model. It failed. I fixed it.
- A survey found that 64 students wanted access to building tools and coding kits.
- The project was good.
Which source would be most useful for this fact: Some plants grow faster when they receive six or more hours of sunlight.
- Museum Exhibit Guide, page 7
- Cafeteria Waste Audit, page 3
- School Communication Notes, page 5
- School Garden Study, page 12
Which habit helps avoid copying in research notes?
- paraphrase the fact and record the source
- use only memory
- delete all source titles
- copy whole pages without a source
Why should research notes stay organized by subtopic?
- so evidence becomes opinion
- so sources are impossible to find
- so the topic changes each paragraph
- so related evidence can be grouped in the final draft