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Goals | Timeline | Sample Activities | Resources | Questions | Checklist
Goals [top]
In this phase, teams put their plan in action by gathering data from their Read, Watch, Ask Do activities. Teams continue to document all of their observations, questions, ideas, and experiences as content for the web site.
Timeline [top]
Teams generally carry their investigations over the course of five or more sessions, with some overlap into Phase Four: Build a Web Site.
Sample Activities [top]
- Participating in field trips to local resources
- Conducting tabletop experiments at the center
- Conducting interviews and roundtable discussions with community members
- Writing email exchanges with experts
- Writing creative and nonfiction journal entries
- Drawing, painting, sketching (animal and plant life, robotic designs, inventions)
- Collecting images and photos
- Searching for information on the Internet
- Researching information at the local library
- Imagining and brainstorming new solutions
- Collecting and documenting teams' experiences, ideas, observations, and questions (for web site content)
- Debriefing on past activities to decide what is the next step
Resources for Phase 3[top]
- Read about a sample day in Phase 3: Investigate!
- The Making Meaning Guide helps team members organize information.
- The ScienceQuest Online Resource Center (Online Resources) is a searchable database of activities, experiments, and links to helpful web sites that your team can explore during immersion
- Online resources for science research
- Science and health resources from the New York Times (includes lesson plans, reports, and links)
- Stories for experienced coaches
- Q&A on common challenges
- Note taking guides: Experiment notes (PDF), What's the same, what's different? Venn Diagram (PDF), and a mind map (PDF) for connecting lots of different ideas and information
- Activities and experiments from the "Science Is" book that you may received at the ScienceQuest training.
Questions to Ask Team Members [top]
- What should we do first?
- What did we learn?
- What do we want to know more about?
- Are we getting closer to finding our answers?
Checklist for Phase 3: Investigate!
Your team is ready to move on to the next phase when it has completed the following:
| Discussed how the information fits together (See the Making Meaning Guide for helping kids organize information.) | |
| Revisited your plan to make certain all ideas were covered | |
| Gathered and documented information from Reading, Watching, Asking and Doing categories | |
| Updated journal if your team has one | |
| Found a satisfactory answer to your team's research question |
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