How to do Research

Brainstorm

Write everything you can think of about your topic:

This example is about Ancient Egypt.

children, making food, pyramids, markets, rich families, growing up, drinks, shops, roles, grandparents, Nile, education, funeral, festivals, types of food, gods, mummies, tombs, making mummies, music etc.

Make a concept map

Sort your ideas into groups

Families: children, grandparents, rich families, growing up, roles

Food and Drink: growing food, types of food, farming, making food, shops, markets, drinks cost of food

Pyramids: mummies, funeral, tombs,

Choose some of these keywords to write your questions to help you find information

Write a question

An easy way to write a question is to join a
keyword from your concept map with how? what? where? why? or when?

• How are pyramids built?
• Who built the pyramids?
• What is stored in the pyramids?
• How are mummies prepared?
• Why did the Egyptian people build pyramids?
• How do we know about life in Ancient Egypt?

Choose keywords to find information

Keywords are your searching / finding words. You can use them to search on:

• internet
• library catalogues
• online databases
• contents, index, and chapter headings in books