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Activity 12 (continues)
• Students may already be
familiar with criteria for
choosing information. If they
have experience in this area,
you may move to the next step
in the sequence. Remember,
what this book proposes is
a number of basic steps and
strategies for dealing with
your own choices, so if a step
is already achieved, you lose
nothing by skipping it.
• It is useful to have the list in
writing so that your students
can quickly cross-check their
sources and therefore have
more time for researching
the facts.

Activity 13
• You may help your students
register some of the details
they already know, since that is
helpful as additional information
for their infographic at a later
point. The way in which they
originally explain their machine
is a means of making
their explanation
more understandable.
• Try to give students free rein in
this discussion about what they already know. Try not to correct them on factual issues (since that is one of
the purposes of doing research). These discussions are by far one of the most important factors for your
students to develop confidence while speaking.
• Remember the notion of orderly chaos we mentioned in an earlier tip. A common tendency when students
are working in groups is to feel you are about to lose control. We recommend you go along with the
dynamic. If you let your students take control from time to time, they will develop autonomy more easily
than if you want to control their every action.
Activity 14

• Students may be familiar with formats for registering sources. Give your group an example of book,
magazine or web page references, so they can use them as models when elaborating their own.
• Reliability of sources is an important issue. The purpose of having your students work with more than the
sources we provide is so they can actually compare information and see whether it is reliable or not.
• When using the web, it is important to recognize sites with paid content or ads within webpages which are
easy to follow, but that may provide researchers with more of the same information. One way to avoid this
is by using different search engines or even metasearch engines (a metasearch engine is a type of website
that pulls together the results from different search engines and filters them to avoid repeated information).

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