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Research. The ability to help ourselves to find an answer to a question or the solution to a problem.
This potential to find answers for ourselves is a skill that includes the ability to decide specifically what we want to know, to find information about a topic, evaluate that information, analyse and interpret the information and then put it all together in a way that brings us answers and solutions for ourselves. This is a skill that we want our students to develop.
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Developing research skills includes explicit teaching of the skill, leading to implicit practice. This resource does exactly that with task cards targeting the research sub-skills.[/caption] The research sub- skills that our IB PYP students need, right from the earliest years include:
- Observing
- Formulating questions
- Media literacy
- Sourcing data
- Evaluating sources
- Analysing & interpreting data
- Synthesising
- Reflecting
- Presenting
We want to ensure that the children's research inquiries are...