Standard 6: Research Students will engage in inquiry to acquire, refine, and communicate accurate information.

2.6.W.1 ​Students will generate a list of topics and questions about an area of interest for research.

Student Actions

Teacher Actions

• Students determine an area of interest for research.

• Students generate a list of related topics.

• Students create a list of questions pertaining to a specific topic for research.

• Teachers ask students about their interests.

• Teachers create a list of topics from students’ interests.

• Teachers support students in identifying an area of interest to focus research.

• Teachers model how to generate a list of topics related to the research focus. 

• Teachers model how to generate questions about a research topic. 

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to:

• generate topics of interest.

• choose questions pertaining to the topic.

• Teachers provide feedback on topics and questions related to research.

Recommendations

Key Terms & Related Objectives

When students struggle to come up with a topic, teachers can…

• use a think-aloud to demonstrate how to create a topic about something that interests them.

• make a list with students about topics they are interested in.

• have students talk with each other about their interests.  

When students cannot think of questions about a topic, teachers can…

• use a KWL chart to help generate questions.

• model generating questions about a topic.

• provide question words (who, what, when, where, why, how) to stimulate ideas. 

• 2.6.R.1: Create questions to find information