How to Formulate a Research Question

Step 2  Contagious Disease Research

Here's what we accomplished in step one while exploring our topics:

• READ non-fiction text about a contagious disease
• Learn unfamiliar words
• Find main ideas of the text
• Summarize the text’s ideas
• Ask questions while reading
• Site sources

What's next?  Let's take all the questions you developed and narrow it to one great research question.

Brainstorm how you might go about answering it.  You may use some of the sources you've already found or you may find new text.  You are now an investigator.  Your job is to answer that question.

So what makes a great research question?

The best questions don't necessarily emerge at the beginning of a unit of study but actually may surface AFTER you've had some time for hands-on investigation and/or reading.

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After you have developed your research question, we will generate and plan.