Starting with research skills: Lesson 2 Cambridge Lower Secondary Global Perspectives 7: Teacher’s Book
Starting with research skills: Lesson 2 Lesson 2 focuses on further understanding of the term ‘research’ and being able to find and record information in the learner’s own words.
CAMBRIDGE STAGE 7 RESEARCH LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1.3 Select an appropriate method and conduct research to test predictions and begin to answer a research question 1.4 Select, organise and record relevant information from a range of sources and findings from research, using appropriate methods
LEARNING GOALS To start to:
Activity: Ask learners to remind you what they did last lesson by looking back in their Learner's Skills Book 7. Encourage learners to look at what they thought the best question was in the last lesson and to share with their partner the reasons why they chose this question. Differentiation for Challenge: Give learners a research question and ask, ‘Is this a good research question? Why/Why not?’
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1.2 Identify and begin to reference a range of print and multimedia sources and use them to locate relevant information and answer research questions
Perspectives, from other subject areas, and from their last Global Perspectives lesson.
understand what research is
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know how to record the main idea from a text
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know how to take notes to help write a text summary
Suggested answers: Remind learners of the features of a good research question from Lesson 1: Is it interesting? Is it too broad? Is it too narrow? Is it too vague? Can it be answered? Does not need to be topic specific.
Starter activity (approx. 5 mins)
Good for: Identifying where learners might find information.
Activity: Listing where they might find information to answer their research questions.
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Example question from Challenge topic ‘Humans and other species’: Do humans need animals to survive?
How will I know if I reach my goals? Good for: Learners to give examples of their learning from the lesson. They can complete the table at any point in the lesson, but they might do it at the end.
Resources needed
Learner's Skills Book 7; your own Language Support handout (if appropriate); Challenge topic (e.g. Education for all) and text for that topic (see the Worked Example for the Main activity ).
Prior learning (approx. 5 mins) Good for: Building on previous knowledge, learning and understanding. This might be from Primary Global
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Ways of working: Individually or whole-class discussion to produce a list on the board and for learners to consider and write down the best way of finding information for the question chosen for the Prior learning activity. Suggested answers/ideas: Based on the question ‘Do humans need animals to survive?’: internet websites, specifically organisations such as One Green Planet: http://www.onegreenplanet.org; newspaper articles such as The Guardian and The Huffington Post, interviews with family and friends, and so on.
Main activity (approx. 25–30 mins) Good for: Identifying the main idea and subject-specific vocabulary in a text; recording the key information from a text to help write a short text summary. Activity: Write a sentence on the board twice, such as ‘Learning new things can help us try new experiences which might be the best ones we ever have.’ In the first of the two sentences cross out all the words apart from ‘can’, ‘us’, ‘which’, ‘might’, ‘have’.
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