Research Project

Starter

• Name one of the search engines that searches across other search engines– Dogpile– Webcrawler– Zuula

Module Outcome

• Pupils will produce a Who Wants to be a Millionaire quiz

or • Newspaper reports and diary entries

• These final outcomes will demonstrate your research and learning about WWII

Skills we are going to cover

• Structuring a research task – how to plan the research task

• Skimming/scanning, taking notes, recording sources• How to find information in a book (including

encyclopaedia) – use of index, contents page, title, front cover etc.

• How to search the internet, and assess websites• How to use online databases/encyclopaedia – include

WBO• How to write/create a bibliography

Lesson Five Learning Objective

• To use our research and learning to create something new

• Outcome– Begin our final piece of work

What have we done so far?

• We have had the chance to:– Choose a topic that interested us– Research/find out more about that topic using

books and the internet– Made notes, highlighted, copied, summarised– Recorded/listed the resources we used in a

bibliography

What now?

• Create something new using the what we have learnt from out research to help us

Writing diary entries: what to include

• How are diaries written? What do they include?

• Example diary entry here

Plan your work

• What is going to happen in each of my diary entries? What events am I going to mention?

• The research you have done will help you to refer to key events, feelings, descriptions etc.

• Spend 10 minutes

Begin writing your diary

• Deadline: Finish your diary entries by the end of next lesson

• How to make your diary entry work: mark criteria– Uses relevant form for a diary– Believable authorial character/voice

– Reference to real events– Descriptions of real events, places/locations– Represents authors feelings/reactions to events

Writing your quiz: what to include

• Use the facts you have learnt from your research to create your quiz questions

• For example: In what year did the Second World War begin?– 1908; 1914; 1938; 1942

• Your questions should get more difficult• Start with general questions about WWII,

before more specific questions about your topic

Deadline: Quiz

• You must finish your final piece of work by the end of next lesson

• Final lesson: We will get into teams and do each other’s quizzes