...or check your home newspapers or news magazines for articles on AIDS, cancer and/or heart disease that you would like to share with the class. If you don't take newspapers or magazines at home, go to your school media center and check one out. Be prepared tomorrow to show the publication and share one article with the class, summarizing its main ideas.

A cluster diagram of a primary research question (shaded gray) with related questions (shaded yellow and blue) is provided for you to study. Notice that related questions are supporting questions which you would ask about your main research topic. You may even organize your questions into subtopics (shaded blue) as illustrated in the sample diagram. Your research team will create a list of questions or a cluster diagram that supports your investigation in preparation for your presentation to the Washington legislature. Open Microsoft Works, Notepad, or Publisher to organize your questions. After you have brainstormed between 12 and 20 questions, you will begin your research. As you see what questions are answered through your research, you should narrow your many questions to the four most readily answered, which will then become your criteria for gathering and synthesizing information about these diseases.

Now, with your research team, brainstorm questions that will help you explore the funding of AIDS, cancer and heart disease research. What do you need to know? What do you need to find out in order to begin your investigation? Record your questions and save to your h-drive. Your cluster diagram revolves around the (gray shaded) problem of prioritizing the funding for research of AIDS, cancer and heart disease. The related questions are similar to the following:

• What segment of the population is effected?
• How much research has already been completed?
• What is the death rate/recovery rate?

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