Name___________________________________________________Date____________Class_________
Final
Research Project
1.
Use specific information from your research to gather
IMPORTANT INFORMATION that helps to thoroughly explain, describe or
inform about your nonfiction topic. This information should
come from both database articles and books. As you gather these
IMPORTANT facts, be sure to place a source number beside the fact
and cite your source on the worksheet.
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(source #__1__) Use complete sentences as you
gather information to place here. Example: The African Lion
is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera.
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2.
Use Gale’s magazine / newspaper tab or ProQuest
Gold to explore your topic using magazines or newspapers.
Select one article that you feel adds significant information or
interesting information about your topic.
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Title of article:
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Summarize the information learned by bulleting at
least 5 important or interesting pieces of information about your
topic that added to your understanding.
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3.
Every topic has “words / vocabulary” that are necessary when
explaining or discussing or exploring the topic. As you explore
your topic develop a list of words that you feel are necessary or
specific to your topic. Explain how that word relates to or is
important to your topic. You must have a minimum of 10 “vocabulary”
words but you may have more. These must come from both books as
well as the database articles you read. These must be words that
are important to your topic.
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Source # _1__ (Example: Topic: Lions / Word - pride
/ pride of lions consists of related females and offspring and a
small number of adult males.)
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4.
Answer one of the following questions. Answer
thoroughly and completely using OER format. Quote at least one book
or article to prove the information and give a page number where
your quote was gathered. Information gathered above should help you
as your write this paragraph.
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At the end of your research and reading about your
topic what new information surprised you the most?
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How could you use this information in your own life?
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Is your topic an issue that affects your community and
the world? Explain.
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How has your research added new information that has
changed your way of thinking about this subject?
5.
Using either database resources or your book locate a graph,
chart or other visual (you may use more than one, but use your
source number to link information to source) to provide five
IMPORTANT, specific facts about your topic that were provided in a
visual format. (These must be new facts not used in question #1)
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complete sentences as you gather information to place here.
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complete sentences as you gather information to place here.
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complete sentences as you gather information to place here.
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complete sentences as you gather information to place here.
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complete sentences as you gather information to place here.
