Step 1: Plan & Focus

Go to Step 2 ~ Go to Resources

1. State a topic in the form of a…

• Broad question
• Problem (Is this a real-life problem?)
• Statement generated through brainstorming

2. Generate several questions about what they want to know, what they want to learn, where and how they will find out
3. Read some information about their topic in order to refine questions or make statements
4. Categorize and focus the questions or statements to aid research (clustering, mind mapping, webbing, etc.)