Lesson 2 Skill Building Secondary Research Last week

Lesson 2: Skill Building. Secondary Research

Last week……. Introduced the “Individual Project” • RECAP • Your individual project is a written assignment which allows you to develop your research, analysis and presentation skills. You will choose a title Plan your research Carry out the research Write up your findings

Presenting the Investigation Written project • 1, 000 – 2, 000 words not including sources • Will include writing, graphs, images, statistical tables, diagrams, drawings

Skills

What is research and why do we do it? What? Research can be information in many different forms. Facts, figures, maps, quotes, images etc Why? To get answers to questions To increase our understanding To learn more about something

4 key stages to a research project It would be What do Ito know interesting find about this about subject out more already? that No 1. Choosing a topic to investigate

No 2 Searching for information

What does all this research mean? No 3 Thinking carefully and critically about what the research is telling you

No 4 Reporting and writing up what you have found out!

How to find good quality research RURU

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Search Engines Type General Government News Statistical data Definitions Maps Images Video Sounds Search engine http: //www. google. com http: //www. bing. com/ http: //www. ask. com http: //www. direct. gov. uk/en/index. htm http: //news. google. com http: //www. newsnow. co. uk http: //www. noodletools. com/debbie/resource s/math/stats. html http: //education. yahoo. com/reference http: //maps. google. com http: //maps. nationalgeographic. com http: //images. google. co. uk/ http: //www. flickr. com http: //www. youtube. com/ http: //www. findsounds. com/types. html http: //www. soundsnap. com/

Effective Searching Follow the tips below to improve your search results. A phrase or words that appear together in quotation marks will reduce the number of random websites and make the search more focused. “? ? ” Eliminating non-essential words will improve the quality of your searches. What is the average number of beauty salons in Mold? Should be Number beauty salons Mold

Effective Searching • More than one key word • Use the sign to search for web pages with more than one key word. Adding a plus to your search will ensure that all your results include the key words. • For example, if you wanted to find out about recycling paper in Cardiff, you can improve your search by typing: + • Recycling+Cardiff+paper • Removing words • Include a • Put a - sign in front of any words that you don't want to be included in your search results. - (minus sign) against words you don't want included in search results

Free Images • • • Websites that offer free images: http: //www. freedigitalphotos. net/ http: //www. freeimages. co. uk/ http: //www. coolclips. com/ http: //www. scran. ac. uk/

Statistics on the Web • • • Statistics Website UK - statisticshttp: //www. statistics. gov. uk/ Local government statisticshttp: //www. direct. gov. uk/ Census statisticshttp: //www. statistics. gov. uk/census/ Environmental statisticshttp: //www. environmentagency. gov. uk/ Food statisticshttp: //www. food. gov. uk/ Health statisticshttp: //www. dh. gov. uk/ Met Office weather statisticshttp: //www. metoffice. gov. uk/ Tourism statisticshttp: //www. visitbritain. com/research Welsh Statistics - https: //statswales. gov. uk/ NHS Wales - www. wales. nhs. uk/statisticsanddata

Relev ant Reliable - Web addresses and suffixes Usefu l Research Relia ble • . com - The "standard" ending to web address often used by commercial organisations • http: //www. microsoft. com. org - Generally used by not for profit organisations • http: //www. oxfam. org. co. uk - A company's website based in the UK • http: //www. bbc. co. uk - A government organisation, e. g. The BBC • http: //www. flintshire. gov. uk - a local government website • http: //www. bham. ac. uk/ /. ac. uk or. sch. uk University, schools and colleges Up to date

Relev ant More Reliable Sources Usefu l Research Relia ble • • Daily Post BBC Wales Online. GOV Up to date

Reliable Relev ant Usefu l Research Up to date Relia ble • If you’re not certain if information is reliable, you can check it in other places to see if the information matches.

Up to date Relev ant Usefu l Research Relia ble No information should be more that 3 years old. Unless you are showing a trend over time e. g. change in teenage pregnancies over the last 20 years. Up to date

Relevant Relev ant Usefu l Research Up to date Relia ble • Stick to your areas of focus when researching. • Make sure the information is related to your title.

Useful Relev ant Usefu l Look for information that you can read and understand Research Relia ble Check with your teacher if information seems too complex – they may be able to help you look at it in a different way. Make sure the research contributes to the story you are trying to tell! Up to date

Relev ant Useful Usefu l Research Relia ble Information comes in all shapes and sizes Maps Source: WWW. Guardian. co. uk Up to date

Useful Relev ant Usefu l Research Relia ble Trends over time Source: http: //fullfact. org/articles/underage _teenage_pregnancy_rates It’s really important to keep a record of where your info has come from Up to date

Relev ant Useful Usefu l Research Relia ble News paper stories Source: Daily Post Newspaper Up to date

Relev ant Useful Usefu l Research Up to date Relia ble Reports Sources: http: //www. ons. gov. uk/ons/dcp 17 1766_300029. pdf

How to save your websites…. Favourites Don't risk losing the web address of a really useful website. If you find a useful website, make sure you add it to your list of favourites. To do this: 1. click the Favourites button at the top of your browser 2. select Add to favourites 3. choose the folder you want to save the page to

This Power. Point is in Student Resources Save it in your research folder and use it as a reference place when you can not think of a place to look for research!

Secondary Research Activity In lesson one you were asked to look at 3 possible areas of work that you maybe interested in. From this you are going to choose one area to base your research on for the next couple of lessons. Open a the word document “Lesson 2: Skill Building- Secondary Research” Research located in Stresources – Welsh Bacc Year 11 – Individual Project Save the document in the secondary research folder in your year 11 Welsh Bacc folder

Secondary Research Activity Open a the word document “Lesson 2: Skill Building- Secondary Research” Research located in Stresources – Welsh Bacc Year 11 – Individual Project You have to decide on an area that you would be interest in doing the project on.

Secondary Research Activity Open a the word document “Lesson 2: Skill Building- Secondary Research” Research located in Stresources – Welsh Bacc Year 11 – Individual Project From this you will research into 3 topics that will help you learn more about the industry you have chosen. Here are some ideas. . Ø Ø Ø Ø Recent industry news Statistics – such as industry turnover (how much the industry is making) Which jobs require qualifications and why Information about the different types of roles How can you progress in the industry? Any trends happening within the industry that could help with your career? The negative aspects of the industry

Collecting Research Piece No 1 • With your teacher you are going to start to practice finding and writing up your research using the RURU rules over the next couple of lessons 1. First – collecting your research – Now you are tasked to look at any secondary sources to help with your research areas. – Complete the RURU section of the booklet for each research topic i h T e g a p s

Next lesson. . • Lesson 3 – How to analyse your research

Relevant Useful Research Reliable Up to date