Have you ever heard of the project Capstone? Hi, my name is Ethan and I’m in 5th grade. Capstone is a project that includes research from websites and interviewing an expert that knows about your topic. I feel pretty good right now about the project and I think I’m making a lot of progress in the research part. 

I had two topics, the first one was about electricity. The main inquiry question was what would the world be like if there were no electricity? But later I started to think the question could not be answered. So my teacher and I came up with a topic that I was interested in and could be answered. That topic was hockey (NHL), my main inquiry question is: Who is the most influential hockey player in the NHL? I chose this topic because I like the NHL and I know a lot of things about the topic. 

Coming up with the main inquiry question wasn’t the hardest part. But having it is really important. The main inquiry question should have something to do with the topic and the sub questions. Most of the challenges were with the sub questions. You had to come up with at least 5 of them and it has to relate to your main inquiry question.

The process of coming up with my sub questions was difficult and annoying. Most of the time you have to make a lot of changes and sometimes you have to change the whole question. Sometimes when you have your main inquiry question but you don’t have the sub questions, you have to change the whole topic. These are my sub questions: Who is the most influential player in NHL history?

“Who had the most impact on the NHL as a coach?
Who had the most impact as a goalie in the NHL? 

Has fans made an impact on teams?

Which captain had the most impact on the NHL?
Which individual had the most impact on the NHL?

Which defenseman had the most impact on the NHL?

Which hockey team has had the most impact on the NHL?

Which manager has had the most impact on the NHL?

Which trainer has had the most impact on the NHL?

Do players have an impact on new teams?”

These are the sub questions that my teacher and I came up with. We also started to try and find somebody to interview. The person that you are interviewing has to be an expert from your topic. We have to do research about all of the sub questions. We also learned how to find websites that can be trusted with collecting information. 

So far in this project I think I’m doing really good on the main inquiry questions and the sub questions. We started researching all of the sub questions. Throughout the 2 weeks I think I have made a lot of progress and improvement in research and coming up with questions.