Social Studies 11

How to Explore an Issue Efficiently


Index

How to Explore an Issue Efficiently

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10 Tips for Exploring Lessons Fast and Well

- 10 Tips for Exploring Assignments Fast and Well
 
- 7 Tips for Exploring Projects Fast and Well

- 7 Steps to Acing the Tests



In this course (as in daily life), getting results fast is often the only way to get results at all. For example, the suggested time for each lesson in this course is usually 15 minutes. That time goal will require you to be systematic and focussed, with self-discipline and no mental wandering. You will learn more in less time than usual, and you will be able to use your new learning power in other aspects of your life.

Each section includes about seventeen lessons in a module workbook, and each section includes a section assignment. Look ahead to some lessons and a section assignment now. Be sure to have your Canadian Issues textbook open to the related chapters. Then think about each of the following tips for efficiently exploring issues by means of the course lessons and assignments.

Your textbook uses the word issue in a broad sense that is almost the same as topic. In that sense, you are exploring an issue each time you do a course lesson that is based on a textbook chapter.

Similarly, the section assignments are issue-related. They typically bring together the issues from several chapters. Also, a section assignment will typically focus on particular steps in the "5 Steps for Exploring an Issue."