Inquiry and Research: Grade 10 Overall Expectations By the end of Grade 10, students will: prepare for research: define information needs using a variety of strategies explore information using a variety of group activities identify varied ways of organizing information relate prior knowledge to information tasks; access resources: locate a variety of appropriate resources from a variety of sources select information appropriate to needs using a variety of strategies gather information from resources using internal organizers and conventions of texts collaborate with others to share findings and ideas; process information: analyze and evaluate information using a variety of strategies test ideas to adjust research and problem solving strategies sort information using a variety of organizers and formats synthesize findings and formulate conclusions; transfer learning: revise product appropriate to purpose, audience and format present research findings in a variety of forms for a variety of audiences reflect on and evaluate product and process transfer new information skills and knowledge to solve problems and make decisions.

Expectations in Specific Areas
Reasoning	Organizing
By the end of Grade 10, students will: - prioritize questions for significance, relevance and practicality - form questions into focus and reflect on continual appropriateness of focus - select specialized atlases, such as historical and cultural atlases - select appropriate census material - analyze inaccuracy and ambiguity in information and their effect on argument - evaluate the clarity of language to support ideas - judge if conclusion follows the argument - understand general principles of good research - use journal to track product and process, including emotional and intellectual responses	By the end of Grade 10, students will: - compare the organizational structures of similar reference materials - interpret statistical information in varied media such as handbooks, yearbooks, almanacs and reports - use advanced print or online indexes to periodicals - create advanced databases and spreadsheets and output information in a variety of ways - create summaries - use advanced bibliographic conventions - revise introduction and conclusion to provide context - verify accuracy of facts and quotations from secondary sources - follow a standard format for a variety of products
Communicating	Applying
By the end of Grade 10, students will: - use informal debate strategies to explore ideas during research process - use informal meeting strategies to share ideas during research - use flow charts in peer and teacher conferencing to check progress and test clarity of ideas - use presentation software to present research	By the end of Grade 10, students will: - use published print and electronic bibliographies to start search - begin to use special libraries, local and virtual, for information - begin to search the Internet using a range of strategies available in a variety of meta search engines - discover relationships in information - make personal meaning from the information analyzed - make judgments and draw conclusions to solve problems