THE RESEARCH SAFARI
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Developing Effective Research Questions

Developing powerful questions allows you to expand your ideas about a topic. You may have been given a question to answer for your research task OR if you have just been given a topic, you will need to CREATE SOME QUESTIONS of your own to help you think more broadly and deeply about your topic. 
Use the KNOWLEDGE COMPASS or one of the questioning frameworks below to STREEEEETCH your thinking about your topic. Try a few and see which one is best for you. 
​Remember the better the questions the better research you will do.
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Question Frameworks you might like to try

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Questions Starters
Click on each image to get some ideas for how to start your questions

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Six Thinking Hats

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    • Cane Toads
    • Colonial Australia
    • Coral Reefs
    • Deserts
    • Dugongs
    • Government >
      • Government Curriculum Links
    • Great Pacific Garbage Patch
    • Introduced Species >
      • Introduced Species - Curriculum Links
    • Medieval Europe >
      • The Black Death
      • Christianity
      • Medieval Warfare
      • Curriculum Links
    • Rainforests
    • Renewable Energy >
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      • Geothermal Energy
      • Hydroelectric Power
      • Solar Energy
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