Planning
Develop your information-seeking strategies.

Now it is time to plan how your team will work together, what resources you will need, and how you will gather your information. What skills will you need to have to be successful? Decide how you will share jobs.

To answer the essential questions you will need to research and answer some specific questions.

Open the SKI TO SEA CHART.  Copy the chart to the drive and folder where your teacher has instructed. The questions below are some questions to get you started. Add more questions to your chart that you think will be useful for your investigation. Notice these are the same questions that are on your chart.

• What are the specific legs of the Bellingham Ski to Sea race?
• What athletes are needed for the race?
• What are the lengths of each leg of the race? 
• What makes a reasonable length for each leg of the race?  (What could an athlete actually do that would be a challenge but would not be impossible?)
• What geographic features are required to create a similar race?
• What is the overall time it takes to finish the race?

What other questions can you think of? Write them on the Ski to Sea Chart you have saved for your work.

Look to see what the expectations are for this project. It should help guide your choices.

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Creators: Stephanie George, Kimberly Wichers, Peggy Zehnder, Marion Hiller
Research modules based on use of the Research Cycle, Module Maker, and ideas in Beyond Technology by Jamie McKenzie.