Planning

• Understanding the assignment
• Establish topic
• Create an answerable question
• Create a concept map
• Develop an organizational plan

Information Retrieving

• Brain storm keywords/search terms/synonyms
• Identify information sources
• Create search strategies for each source 
• Locate resources

Information Processing

• Choose relevant information
• Evaluate information
• Organize and record information
• Cite your sources (Plagiarism)
• Make connections and inferences
• Create product
• Revise and edit

Information Sharing

• Present findings

Evaluation

• Evaluate Product
• Evaluate Research Procedures and Skills