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🌱 Ages 9–14 · Grades 4–8 · Civic Action Research (YPAR)

CauseQuest

Take on one real thing you can see at your school or park, in five steps. It’s non-partisan: what counts is your method, never your opinion.

📓 Start a project

Pick a place you know and notice one thing there. Your notebook stays on this device.

  1. 1. Frame it fairly
  2. 2. Check the facts
  3. 3. Who decides?
  4. 4. Plan a first step
  5. 5. Report honestly
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🔍 1 Frame it fairly 📰 2 Check the facts 👥 3 Who decides? 🪜 4 Plan a first step 📣 5 Report honestly
📝 Warm up with the concepts 🎓 Teach the cast

Warm-ups

Practice the concepts 16 kits trace the whole arc: framing a fair issue, an answerable question, checking a source, evidence, who is affected, the real cause, a first step, hearing the other side, and the honest report. Teach the cast Help Kwesi learn to name a FAIR issue: a fixable thing, not a person to blame. When you teach it, you understand it best. Cause Run Five calm encounters and a boss that re-faces what you kept missing. Your progress See how far you have come across the kits. Your work stays on this device.

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Concept kits — 16 kits across the action-research arc

From “what action research IS” through framing, checking sources, evidence, stakeholders, the feasible plan, being fair, and the honest report.

Kit 1: What is action research? 25 questions Kit 2: Framing a fair issue (mechanism, not villain) 25 questions Kit 3: A question you can actually answer 25 questions Kit 4: Spotting spin + checking a source 25 questions Kit 5: Evidence: facts vs. feelings 25 questions Kit 6: Is it fair? (bias + both sides) 25 questions Kit 7: Who is affected? Who decides? 25 questions Kit 8: Finding the real cause 25 questions Kit 9: A plan with a real first step 25 questions Kit 10: By when, with what? (feasibility) 25 questions Kit 11: What could go wrong? 25 questions Kit 12: Hearing the other side 25 questions Kit 13: Being fair + doing no harm 25 questions Kit 14: Being honest about AI help 25 questions Kit 15: Sharing your plan (out loud) 25 questions Kit 16: Reporting the result (capstone) 25 questions