How to start and complete your research.

3. Conservation of energy
• Focus on the questions you need to
answer.
• What can we do to conserve energy?
• Why do we need alternative energy?
• How can new technology help to conserve
non-renewable energy and find renewable
energy?

5. Think about all the sources you
can find!
• Non-fiction printed books
• Non-fiction ebooks
• Magazines such as Kids
Discover, National Geographic Kids
• Educational videos/DVDs
• Reference books such as Encyclopedias
• Online databases
• Age appropriate websites

7. Where to find the sources?
• Search library catalog for non-fiction books
and DVDs
• Borrow the magazines with the relevant
topics
• Use Britannica Online Encyclopedia
• Use the age appropriate websites –
Webpath Express

8. Kids friendly search engines
• Yahooligans
• Kidrex
• Yippy
• Please remember that search engines like
Google and Yahoo are made for adult
readers and researchers
• Let’s try to find age appropriate materials
for our projects!

10. Note-taking and cite your
sources
• DO NOT copy the information you found
word by word, sentence by
sentence, paragraph by paragraph
• It’s plagiarism!
• Cite the sources you’ve used – Title of the
book, name of the author, publishing
company and publishing year

11. How can I organize the
information? How can I best
present the
results?

12. How to meet the standard of the
project?
• Use the notes you’ve collected from
different sources to finish your project
• Use your own words! Cite your sources!!
• Make a Power Point/Prezi presentation
• Make a manual/book/digital book/blog
about your topic
• Make a poster/newspaper about your topic
• Oral presentation/living museum

13. Is the task complete? Does my
solution answer the original
question? Did I find the best
resources?

14. Self-reflective thinking
• Have I used all the available sources? Can
I tell which sources are better for the task?
• Have I taken notes by using my own
words? Have I cited the sources I used?
• Have I presented the ideas clearly to meet
the requirements of the project?
• How can I do better for the next research
project?