Lesson Overview

Know the context. What are your gaps in knowledge? How do you ask a better question & apply context? What issues around biodiversity are close to your heart?

Goals

Select an issue that you feel connected to
Determine what knowledge you lack around the topic/question you are investigating
Know how to ask a better question
Recognize how to fill your gaps in knowledge
Discover the context of your issue and how to work within it

Tasks

Lesson Media: Introduction to Lesson Two
Browse: Discover a topic for your report
Guiding Question: Create a good question to frame your research report
Context:Understand how context factors into your idea
Sorted Library: Browse through articles about the importance of research
Theme Media: Explore the value of research through ONE of the FIVE media themes
Perspectives: View BOTH interviews with prominent Canadian's about their views on research
Task: Discover your best question to ask, and the supporting evidence you will use to prove your conclusion

Lesson Media

Nature Labs Patreon Launch Video

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Browse

Use the Sorted Library, online searches, and your school/local library to discover topics related to biodiversity health.

Read

Guiding Question

Students will come up with a guiding question for their research report and determine where their gaps of knowledge exist and how to fill them.

Donwload

Context

What it is: The circumstances that form the setting for an event or idea in order to fully understand it.

Examples

Theme Media

WATCH: Select the theme you’d like to learn though. You don’t need to explore them all, just choose the one that interests you the most. The theme will help guide you thought the unit and explore the concepts you’ll need to understand by the end of the unit.

Economics

Save the economy to save nature or save nature to save the economy?

Ethics

Should individuals matter in conservation?

Resources

Endangered Species: A question of resources.

Stewardship

Are we killing nature with kindness?

Land-Use

Land Use: Does Nature Need Half?

Perspectives

LISTEN: Play both perspectives on influential Canadian’s that discuss the importance of research. Jot down any notes when comparing the two different views. Which view do you agree with more? Why?

Nature Labs Patreon Launch Video

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Nature Labs Patreon Launch Video

04:00

Task

Asking the better question. Determine the guiding question you will use as the basis for your research report.

To Do

Using the worksheet to help guide you, determine what your best question is to ask for your research report, determine any gaps in knowledge that you have, understand the context and discover the main points that will help you prove the desired conclusion you would like to draw for your readers.

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