Explore


Exploration

What it is and What to think about:

To explore your answer, plan your path to learn. Consider a question, hypothesize an answer, and search a solution. This will take most of the time for your project --- finding valid answers.

Portfolio Thoughts

All your best work demonstrating the skills you practice and learn should become part of your portfolio. 

RICO Thoughts

Main Ideas/Details/Summaries
As you search your answer and verify your hypothesis, refine your answer with evidence and connections.

Issues, Conclusions, Solutions
Invent ideas that belong to you. Suggest an solution or recognize an issue.  Connect your research and your answers to an issue that others will be interested in, especially in your own community or family. These are the ideas that you contemplate as you consider your research.

Analyze and Report
Own the information: be committed to a thorough investigation of an issue or topic; document your journey and evaluate your process and product. Do something of which you can be proud.


Plan 

How to plan your search:  

Be sure to check out your requirements for evaluation.

Plan your search:
 KWHW sheet  -- add to your sheet and plan:
What is your main question?
What is your hypothesis? What do you think you will discover?

Keep your log:
Maintain a log to document your journey and show your commitment. Create a form to complete daily for your own record and to share with your teachers. 

Title your form: W_ MOTT Progress Code
Put your MOTT Progress sheet in you Project folder. This will share this with your teacher.


Your form will include the following questions:
1. Code Name
2. What process did you do today? (take notes, re-read notes, summarize, analyze, draw conclusions, ask questions, design, edit, revise, peer help, studied a lesson, etc.)
3. What product did you complete today? (notes, drafts, revisions, completed lesson on ____, etc.)
4. On what EALR did you focus
5. Link to your EALR work (URL)
6. What are your "Next Steps?"
7. Comments, Questions, Reminders, 

Take notes
For each text. track your topic’s main idea and details.

1.  Start with a WTV√ 
What's the text? What do I want to know? What will the text tell me? Is it valid? Which will I use?

Use Google Bookmark to bookmark your search. Remember to use labels -- your code name and your topic.
2. Keep notes

Use Cornell Notes in a way that helps you remember, document, and cite your research.

One set of notes per source (list at top)
Two column possibilities:
Text Notes / What it means
Key words / summary and connections
Bottom section: Summary and Possible Issues on each page
Summarize the most important ideas and supporting details.

Issues:
Analyze your facts for issues related to your topic.
What are possible problems?
What are possible solutions?
What solutions do you think are best?

Share with Peers
Sometimes you begin to get a mental block on what to research or analyze. To help you with your thinking, share one idea about your topic with peers. Perhaps you have a question, perhaps you want to know their opinion or knowledge, perhaps you just need help clarifying your understanding. Use the AEIOU Think Sheet to document your sharing.

Use reading strategies --reading strategies (use your readers notebook).
Use your reading skills and note when and how you use them:
2.1.3 Main Ideas / Supporting Details
2.1.6 Generate questions and answers
2.4.5 Evaluate the information: use only the important information
2.1.7 Summarize frequently
1.3.2 Learn new vocabulary and spell it correctly
2.3.1 Discover the important causes and effects
2.4.1 Draw conclusions: What is the most important information the author is explaining? Who would benefit from the information?
2.1.6 Visualize: Create visual images with labels/captions/comments about your topic
2.4.5 Connect your issue to your community or family; find a solution
2.4.5 Generalize a common statement from your research to another situation, such as in your community.
2.4.3 Evaluate the accuracy and validity of your information.


Develop your conclusions.
Use the Target Sheet to summarize your facts, make conclusions, and develop a response to the issue of your question(s).

Choose your audience.

Persuade them to consider your solution or to recognize your issue.

Consider all your research. Contemplate the issues and suggest a solution or at least a recognition of the issue. Persuade an audience in a letter to acknowledge your solution or to recognize the issue you present.  To whom will you write?

Persuasive Strategies: Presentation  Bears




Use your writing strategies.

At this point, you will have considered a problem and hypothesis, contemplated the research to draw conclusions and generalize the issues, created a solution, communicated the solution to an audience, and curated your journey in a log and in your portfolio.




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