Lab School Inquiry Framework: Initial Immersion

PICTURE of GEAR Here

Emotional Response to Process:

• Curious/Excited
• Potentially overwhelmed with information
• Anxious
• Vague sense of direction; uncertain of how to move forward

• Determine a broad topic
• Develop search terms and related topic vocabulary
• Developing questions Identify resources
• READ and Annotate
• Build background knowledge

• Analyze rhetorical situation (S.O.A.P.S.): consider audience & purpose 

• Collaborate with others based on topic
• Narrow your topic or question
• Create a Bibliography or Annotated Bibliography
• This would be the “pit” stage

• Instruct students on how to locate sources:
  Print  Databases  Web
• Instruct students how to analyze a credible source:
  C.R.A.A.P.O. Evaluation tool
• Teach students how to gather & summarize sources.
• Teach students how to cite sources in MLA (English) or Chicago Style (Social Studies): OWL Purdue
• Model all of these processes
• Provide formative feedback

REFLECT