I can't believe it is already April! What a breeze this year has been so far! Here it is, April, only two months until school lets out for summer break. I am sure you all have been thinking about the end of school as well. It will be here before we know it! Life gets faster and faster these days!
As we approach the sixth six weeks, I would like to give you an idea of what our new focus (aside from STAAR, of course, which will occur on April 23rd and 24th) will be. The sixth six weeks is my personal favorite because I get to teach something I am extremely good at doing, know a lot about, and really love. What is it, you ask? The answer is an eight-letter word. Let's see if you can guess with a few more hints.
Hint #1: It is something that will definitely involve computers. Hint #2: It is something I've had to do a lot of in my graduate classes this year. Hint #3: It is something you will have to do every year from here on out until you finish school, whether that be high school, college, or graduate school. (I'm hoping that will be graduate school for many of you!) Do you give up? Alright . . . RESEARCH!
You're probably wondering why you are supposed to be excited about doing research. Many times research has a negative connotation. My theory is that those of you rolling your eyes at the answer to my game just haven't been exposed to the more interesting, engaging, and fun aspects of research. Well, Mrs. Jackson and I have already been hard at work cooking up an excellent project for sixth six weeks. No, I am not going to tell you what it is. I will tell you, though, that it is something you will enjoy and something that will teach you a lot about a wide array of topics.
So here is this week's initial question: Why is research important? To answer this question, consider the following sub-questions: 1) What can you learn when you do research on a specific topic? 2) What are the good things about research? Bad things? 3) How do you do research? 4) What is the end goal of any research project? (i.e. What are you going to accomplish when you do good research?) 5) What types of research have you done? If you haven't done any real research, tell me what type of research you would like to do instead.
We have a busy but grand rest of the school year to look forward to. I know it will be a year we'll look back on and say, "Wow, it was a good year!" Answer the initial and sub-questions in four complete, thoughtful questions. Happy writing, guys and gals!
So you can learn more. More about that specific topic and even more topics. The good things are you learn more and the bad is finding actual facts. If you find a quote and put it in quotations and put who said that quote. Where did you get the information from. I've done research over a country artist.
ReplyDeleteResearch.Research is important because it can help you with practicly anything you can think of if you put your mind to it.For research you can learn really anything.Like if you research the solar system or animals or life everyone of those will have a topic for you to read and to learn from it.The good things are you get to learn.Whatever you research it may have something you didn't know about it unless you are the master at that topic.The bad things is that it can be inappropriate with something you just did not want to even hear.And that sometimes there is where random people can post really anything about what the question asked and be comepletely wrong.You research by getting anything related to that topic that can help you with it like a book or computer and research away.To me the end goal of any research project is getting all the research that you needed.And I have done a lot of research on famouse people.
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