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To help your children with their home projects the following information process summary may be of assistance.

Steps in the process

Defining

• What is my purpose?

• Why do I need to find this out?

• What are the key words and ideas of the task?

• What do I need to do?

Locating

• What do I already know?

• What do I still need to find out?

• What sources and equipment can I use?

Selecting

• What information can I leave out?

• How relevant is the information I have found?

• How credible is the information I have found?

• How will I record the information I need?

Organising

• Have I enough information for my purpose?

• Do I need to use all this information?

• How can I best combine information from different sources?

Presenting

• What will I do with this information?

• With whom will I share this information?

Assessing

• Did I fulfil my purpose?

• How did I go - with each step of the information process?

• How did I go - presenting the information?

• Where do I go from here?