Choose a Source for a Specific Question

Supplied materials

• Original research question: Which pretend club rooms can hold at least twelve seats? Supplied Source A, room chart made this week: “Room Pine: 10 seats. Room Birch: 14 seats. Room Elm: 12 seats.” Source B, design note: “Pine has green walls; Birch has a mural; Elm has plain walls.” Source C, last year’s club poem: “We gather and imagine.”
• Paper and pencil; spoken responses are welcome.

Learn the idea

A source is useful in relation to a question. This question concerns the number of seats, so a current capacity chart directly addresses it. Wall descriptions and a poem may serve other purposes but cannot supply seat counts. A familiar or attractive source is not automatically the right one for the information needed.

Read the question’s exact condition before selecting details. At least twelve includes twelve as well as larger counts, so Birch and Elm qualify on the supplied chart. A chart can support only what it records; these counts do not establish that the rooms are currently available, reserved, or suitable for every kind of activity.

1. Underline at least twelve seats in the question.
2. Name the kind of information each source contains.
3. Use the current chart to compare all three counts with twelve.
4. State the two qualifying rooms and one fact the chart does not supply.

Check your reasoning

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Take it further

Change the question to “Which room has a mural?” Model: use Source B and answer Birch. A seat chart is no longer the direct source because the needed information changed from capacity to wall design.

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