Short Research Projects
Grade 5 - Writing - Building Confidence
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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 bike lanes?
- The transportation count recorded 118 bicycles on the park road in one afternoon.
- The road is bad.
- I rode fast. A car passed. I stopped.
- Bicycles can be many colors.
Which source would be most useful for this fact: Some plants grow faster when they receive six or more hours of sunlight.
- School Garden Study, page 12
- Library Innovation Report, page 4
- School Communication Notes, page 5
- Cafeteria Waste Audit, page 3
Which habit helps avoid copying in research notes?
- copy whole pages without a source
- paraphrase the fact and record the source
- delete all source titles
- use only memory
Why should research notes stay organized by subtopic?
- so the topic changes each paragraph
- so related evidence can be grouped in the final draft
- so evidence becomes opinion
- so sources are impossible to find