The big idea of the ‘Organising’ phase of the information process is: “How can I use this information?”
The key steps and questions of this phase are:
– Do I have enough information?
– Do I have too much information?/Do I need to use all of my information?
– Can I combine information from different sources?
(NSW Department of Education, 2023a)
Check the L.I.S.C. again, as well as your assessment rubric, to make sure you have enough information to achieve your learning goals.
Now, you’re going to organise the information you’ve collected from various sources under subheadings, such as ‘who’, ‘when’, and ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’. Use the graphic organiser to organise the information you’ve already collected. You will be given a paper copy, as well as having your editable digital copy in your Google Classroom assignment. You can find a read-only version hyperlinked below.
Note: If you’ve gathered the same fact/information from various places, you only need to write it down once, but you can reference all the places you found that information. Remember, information being the same across multiple sources is a good sign that it’s accurate!
After you’ve filled in your organiser, check to see if you have any boxes with no or little information. If so, go back to the ‘Selecting’ phase and find more.
You should also look at everything you put under the ‘extra information’ section. Check your L.I.S.C. again and carefully consider whether or not you need that additional information. If it’s off-topic, irrelevant, or won’t add important context to your other information, delete it!
Next is the ‘Presenting’ phase, where you’ll get to work on your Google Slides presentation.