Year 10 - Citizenship
Why is primary research important?
How can I be a changemaker in my community?
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Unit Summary
This unit enables students to build knowledge and understanding of communities and develop active citizenship skills to make a positive change.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain what primary research is and how it can support your active citizenship project.
Key Notes
- Primary research is research that you carry out yourself.
- Primary research includes interviews, observations, questionnaires, focus groups, suggestion boxes and visual logs.
- It helps you understand real experiences to make your project more relevant and connected to your audience.
- It involves gathering new evidence and stories to highlight issues that may not be widely known.
- It shows you've listened to others, adding credibility and impact to your campaign.
Vocabulary To Learn
- primary research: original information or data, or the results of interviewing people. Research that you go out and collect yourself
- support: something that strengthens your argument or point of view
- data: facts or information, like numbers, words, or pictures, that can be collected and used
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- That primary research simple involves finding out what people think about your project.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Primary research is research that you carry out yourself. Primary research includes interviews, observations, questionnaires, focus groups, suggestion boxes and visual logs.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'primary research'
original information or data, or the results of interviewing people. Research that you go out and collect yourself.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: That primary research simple involves finding out what people think about your project. Correction: Primary research does much more than this, it provides first hand accounts to help you be persuasive, it informs you whether or not your project is likely to be successful and it provides data that might not already be known to you.
More Lessons In This Unit
- How can I build my skills to become an active citizen? Study Guide
- How can I ensure lasting impact? Study Guide
- How can I evaluate my action? Study Guide
- How can we achieve our goal? Study Guide
- How can we ensure effective safeguarding? Study Guide
- How do I carry out my action? Study Guide
- How do I choose a topic to investigate? Study Guide
- How do I inform others? Study Guide
- What issues are there in my community? Study Guide
- Why is it important to consider the views of others? Study Guide
- Why is secondary research important? Study Guide
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