Collecting information

Danielle collected information about the Galileo space probe, because its launch was a current event that interested her.

Developing questions

Danielle developed questions to guide her inquiry, for example:

• What were Galileo's important ideas?
• How did these ideas lead to his actions?
• How did they change people's lives?

Collecting information

Danielle gathered information from books and websites.

Reflecting and evaluating

Danielle considered ways of checking the reliability of information she had gathered online. She sorted the information she had according to how authoritative the source was.

Processing information

Danielle organised her information into a timeline of Galileo's ideas and actions. She used different highlighters to identify whether information related to ideas or to actions.

Exemplified here

Communicating findings

Danielle wrote her conclusions and presented them and her poster to her class.