CH Assessment 2021/2022

RESEARCH
GUIDANCE FOR TEACHERS AND
LOWER PRIMARY STUDENTS
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Plan: what are you going to do?

In the beginning, when students receive a research assignment, they should first think:

 What am I supposed to do?

 What will the result look like if I do a really good job?
 What do I need to find out about in order to do the job?

Big steps:

- Task Definition
- Information Seeking Strategies

Choose a Topic: A good topic should have enough available information at the student’s
grade, ability, and interest level. The student will understand that...

 a topic supports a unit of study

 topic information comes from books, computers, and people

Choose Subtopics: A good subtopic allows the student to decide what he/she wants to know
about the topic. Subtopics for primary level can be in question format: e.g. what does my
animal look like, where does my animal live, etc. The student will understand that...

 questions support the topic

 questions are the result of brainstorming or finding information within library
resources

Do it
In the middle, students DO the activity. They read, view, tell, make a picture, etc.

Big steps:

- Location and Access

- Use of Information

Select Sources: A good source is one that matches the reading level of the student and has
information that supports the topic and subtopics. The student will understand that...

• a source has information about the topic

• a source should be preselected by the teacher or librarian
• it is important to give credit to each source of information
• minimum resources used for lower primary students are 2 resources

Read/View/Think/Write/Create

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• Read or view a “chunk” with your pencil down (for primary age, a chunk is a few
sentences).
• Think about what was read or viewed.
• Select only what is important to answer the questions.
• Write down only the important facts that answer the questions.
• Give credit to the source: author, title, copyright date.
• Create your research: picture, data sheet, computer activity, etc.

Review: what have you done so far?

Finally, before the assignment is completely finished and turned in, students should again
stop and think – Is this done?

• Did I do what I was supposed to do?

• Do I feel OK about this?
• Should I do something else before I turn it in?

Big Steps:

- Synthesis
- Evaluation

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PLAN
Observation
Look around you. Is there anything that interests you? What is it?
 I am interested at __________________________________________________________

Why do you interest on it?

 I interest about it because ___________________________________________________

I will draw a picture to illustrate the things around me that makes me interested on and I will
write three sentences to describe my picture.

3 sentences to describe my drawing:

1. ______________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________

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Problems
Do you see any problems about the things you are interested in?
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2. ______________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________

Why do you think those problems could happen?

1. ______________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________

Coming up with a Good Questions

The ‘Effect’ Question:
What is the effect of sunlight on the growth of plants?
What is the effect of temperature on the size of a balloon?
What is the effect of healthy food to the student’s healthiness?

The ‘How Does Affect’ Question:

How does the color of light affect the growth of plants?
How does the amount of water affect the growth of plants?
How does the type of food affect the eating habit of the sugar glider?

The ‘Which/What and Verb’ Question

Which food do meal worms prefer?
What detergent makes the most bubbles?
Which paper towel is the most absorbent?

Now, its your turn. Create your Science Fair question using either the “Effect Question”, the
“How does Affect Question” or the “Which/What and Verb Question”:

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Review
Is my work neat? _____ YES _____ NO

Circle your sources

Computer Book Discuss with Someone

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DO IT
Problem:
1. ______________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________

Resources
Book I found in the library on my topic are:
1. ______________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________
Internet sites that I found on my topic are:
1. ______________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________
People I talked to about my topic are:
1. ______________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________

Some important points that I learned about my topic are:

1. ______________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________

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Doing the Experiment/Research

 Here is the tools and materials I need to make my product.

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 Here is the step of making it.

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Design a table here to collect your information

Making Process
I will need to report your progress on making the product/service. Here is an example of the
progress table.
Teacher/Parent
Number Day, Date Progress
Signature
1 Monday, 23 My research is to compare the height of
Aug 2021 the plant tomato plants in the day and
in the dark. Today, I finished on
preparing the soil and putting the seeds
in two different pots.
2 Monday, 30 The seeds are growing. It is 1 cm right
Aug 2021 now. I water it every day. My teacher
helps me to measure it.

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Here is my table. I will fill it regularly until the product/service is done.

Teacher/Parent
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Result
From the experiment above, I found that
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How do the subjects I have learned in the class help me to do the Research?
In English
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In Math
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Other Subjects
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For me, the activity was very useful because

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Review
Is my work neat? _____ YES _____ NO

Circle your sources

Computer Book Discussion with Someone

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EVALUATION
After conducting research, I learned that
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The good things about the research are But there is/are something lack from it,
which is/are

To get a better result, I think I would do

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This is how I think I am doing

Always Sometimes Never

I get my work done.

I try my best on all
of my work.
I like to work on my
research.
People around me
help me to finish the
research.
I want to improve
my research in the
future.

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