1. Research: Topic & Intro Topic: Student Name:
What do you already know about the topic?
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SIRS RESEARCHER Go to the Research Page on the LSW Media Center Website and click on the SIRS Researcher link
(hot topics.)
1. Click on the Groups tab on the main page of SIRS
Researcher
2. Find and select the topic from the groups that most
closely relates to your general topic.
3. Read the Topic Overview - select the more button at
the end of the paragraph and read the overview and
terms to know (scroll down to find the terms to
know).
4. In 2-3 sentences and using your words summarize the Topic Overview.
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5. Choose 2 terms to know that are most significant and define them using your own words.
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6. Go back to the Leading Issues page and read the
Pro/Con Issues and Essential Questions. Click on the
one question that is the most interesting to you and
write it down.
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2. 7. Read the At Issue section - select the more button at the end of
the paragraph and read the At Issue. In 1-2 sentences and using
your words summarize the At Issue section.
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8. Pick one Yes (Pro) Article and
one No (Con) Article from the
At Issue Page & Skim them
both.
9. After skimming both articles – Briefly explain a pro and a con for this issue.
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10. Go back to the Leading issues page for your topic
& look at the Research Tools.
11. Visit the timeline for this Issue. List two significant events related to this issue that have occurred in the last 25
years.
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3. 12. Go back to the Leading issues page for your topic and visit the statistics for this Issue. List two significant stats
related to this issue.
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13. What do YOU think? Answer the essential question you picked and support your answer with three specific
pieces of information you found today.
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