{"id":4135,"date":"2019-05-13T15:50:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T22:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/?p=4135"},"modified":"2019-05-13T15:50:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T22:50:04","slug":"what-is-great-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/2019\/05\/13\/what-is-great-research\/","title":{"rendered":"What is great research?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Okay, so I have been checking in with students about their animal project research and their independent projects, and we had a discussion today about what makes great research.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Great researchers don&#8217;t just take one set of questions, answer them with brief bullet points, and then say, &#8220;I am done!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They also don&#8217;t ask, &#8220;How many lines of research do I need?&#8221; This shows greater focus on getting something done instead of just finding out information!<\/p>\n<p>Great researchers don&#8217;t go into a research project without a good question. Not having a question means you fall into the abyss of the never-ending Internet without a compass for direction and focus!<\/p>\n<p>Great researchers don&#8217;t have messy notes without sources, because what if you need to remember something later, or prove that something you are saying about your topic is true?<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, what do great researchers do? They&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>choose a topic of great interest to them!<\/strong> You have been given choice, but with choice comes responsibility. Choose something you are passionate about!<\/li>\n<li><strong>are curious!<\/strong> If you are not curious about your topic and ask lots of questions, then your research won&#8217;t have any detail or depth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>ask one question at a time, seek the answer, and document!<\/strong> That is why I suggested making your notes with a question, followed by information and a response, and then the resources you used to find the answer. Otherwise, you may be less focused and go all over the place with your research.<\/li>\n<li><strong>ask more questions than the teacher has given!<\/strong> Don&#8217;t just stop after you answer the key criteria. What questions do you have now? And then take some more notes on your new questions!<\/li>\n<li><strong>are never really &#8220;done&#8221;!<\/strong> They keep going and show perseverance to become an expert on their topic. That means asking better and deeper questions. Use our wonderings wall prompts as a way to shape more complex questions, too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Obviously, in school, we have the constraints of time and schedules, which may keep us from becoming the ultimate expert. But, we can try! It is hard to give a specific number of lines of notes to give your research notes a quantity, but a project ideally has 4-5 pages of notes, not just one with brief bullet points, if it shows evidence of <em>extending<\/em> your thinking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Great job listening today about how we can improve our research. See my next post about deadlines for the next little bit!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ms. D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone! Okay, so I have been checking in with students about their animal project research and their independent projects, and we had a discussion today about what makes great research. Great researchers don&#8217;t just take one set of questions, answer them with brief bullet points, and then say, &#8220;I am done!&#8221; They also don&#8217;t ask, &#8220;How many lines of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4136,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions\/4136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}