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Student Instructions
Statement of Inquiry: Geographic location and development create opportunities and
constraints in dealing with natural disasters
Assessment: Answer a research question in your own chosen format
You are to create your own research question linked to the topic. You must then
effectively plan, research, analyse and evaluate sources to answer that question in a
format of your choice!
Writing Questions
The inquiry/ research question should be a question about the topic and something you
would like to further investigate. When defining a clear and focused research question
the following elements can be considered: relevance, manageability, originality, ability to
be assessed, of interest to the student and based in the subject.
Think about the clarity and focus of your research question.
How easy or difficult is it to find information?
Are there a good range of sources that you can refer to?
Are the sources recent or dated?
Could you answer your question in an essay of 2 pages?
Could you find a definitive answer to your question?
If you were rewriting your question, what would you change?
Is your question related to the unit topic?
Your question could use the following command terms, topics and things to compare/consider;
Starting words
Content to assess
What to assess
Identify
Earthquakes
-Japan
Explain why
-Philippines
Primary reason
Analyse why
-China
Success
Hurricanes
Failure
-Katrina
To what extent
effect of technology
How far
How accurate is it to say
Volcanoes
Compare
Pinatubo
causes of
St Helens
consequences of
Iceland
Impacts upon
Importance of
Tornados/Tsunamis etc
Human reactions
n.b - only use disasters from
Government reactions
International reactions
Reasons for living near disasters
N.B - Keep questions as specific as you can. A question like How do humans react to earthquakes?
cant really be answered as it is too broad.
Before making your action plan, break your question/task into stages.
Date to
complete