5+-+Investigating

= **Investigating** = Investigating is to carry out a purposeful inquiry or research, to test existing understanding, discover new information and create new understanding. Through investigation, learners critically evaluate a variety of sources, making connections and synthesizing findings to apply knowledge to real-life contexts.

From Trans Skills // Research // **Formulating questions:** I know what I want and need to find out about. I ask questions that are relevant to what I want or need to know. I ask interesting, open questions. I ask questions that can be researched. **Observing:** I use all of my senses. I am aware of detail. **Collecting data:** I can get information from different sources. I can collect information by measuring, using maps, making and carrying out surveys, observing, using resource books, using the internet, using CD-roms, watching films, asking people and going to exhibitions. **Interpreting data:** I can identify patterns in my data and can make conclusions about them. **Presenting research findings:** I can select an appropriate way to show what I have found out. I can communicate what I have learnt.

// Thinking // **Acquisition of knowledge:** I can find out facts and learn about new ideas. I understand and use new vocabulary. I can remember what I have learnt. **Comprehension:** I understand what I have learnt. I understand information I find from different sources and can explain it to others. **Analysis:** I can break ideas and knowledge into smaller parts. I can look for patterns and find similarities and differences. I can identify unique features. **Application:** I can use my skills and knowledge in different situations. I can use my skills and knowledge when I find myself in a new situation or to solve a problem. I can use my skills and knowledge in practical ways. **Synthesis:** I can take information from different places and put it together. I can combine ideas and knowledge to answer questions. **Evaluation:** I can use criteria to make decisions about work, behaviour, attitudes, knowledge or action. **Dialectical thought:** I can think about different points of view at the same time. I can understand the different points of view. I can make arguments for the different perspectives based on my knowledge about each point of view. I know that people can have their own perspectives. **Metacognition:** I can think about how I learn things and what I have learnt. I know the process I go through to learn something. I know that other people might learn in a different way to me. I think about this when I work with other people.

// Self-Management // **Organization:** I plan, carry out and complete activities. I keep my work in order. I keep my things tidy. I know where my things are. **Time management:** I can complete my work on time. I am always in the right place at the right time. I plan my time so that I know I can do everything that I need to do.