Activity 7.4

Step 2: Viewing Sample Project Descriptions and Research Questions

 When you create a Seeing Reason project online, you will need to enter a Project Description and Research Question to guide your learners’ work. Use this time to help clarify your project ideas.

 
Project Description

Just like for the Visual Ranking Tool, the Project Description for Seeing Reason is a focused, short paragraph that describes the project to your learners and explains how they will use the Seeing Reason Tool to help them answer the project’s Focus Question. The Project Description should be able to convey, in a few sentences, why this is a project or problem that is worthy of study, as well as define what your learners will try to solve, produce, respond to, test, recommend, or find out.

Reasearch Question

The Research Question is the direct question that learners will respond to in their causal map. This question and the resulting investigation will provide a foundation on which learners will build understanding around the complexities of the project or problem.

Click here to see some example Research Questions related to the same project descriptions that you read in the previous Step.

Next: Proceed to Activity 7.5