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Educator Voices: Grade 3 Research Skills Unit
Describes the process teachers went through to create a lesson unit where students first brainstormed what it means to do research, then were tasked with choosing a topic, researching it, and presenting on it several days later. The...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Researching a Topic: Teaching Students to Research Information
Students will conduct a short research project about a topic. This lesson focuses on how to find the information needed on their chosen topic.
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Standard Cc.8.6.6 8.f: Conduct Short Research
Choose from multiple lessons that satisfy the following standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Research Project: American Heroes
This lesson is designed to help students of all backgrounds learn to work together in groups to complete a research paper assignment. This is a collaborative based lesson plan that challenges students to work together to complete the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Greek Playwright Research Project
Through this lesson students research Greek playwrights, analyze their works, and explain how their works relate to the 21st century.
University of Utah
University of Utah: Aspire: The Aspire Breadboard
This is a tutorial for creating a breadboard with an LED display as an educational outreach effort for the Telescope Array cosmic ray research project near Delta, Utah. When completed, the breadboard could be programmed to use actual...
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Building Research Skills 2 3
Check out this site to learn more about building research skills for grades 2-3. This site offers suggestions for activities that will sharpen your abilities.
San Diego State University
San Diego State University: Researching Research
This comprehensive unit site from the San Diego State University is geared towards seventh grade math and science students. "Students will chose a research project currently in progress and research it using traditional techniques, the...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Searching for Gold: A Collaborative Inquiry Project
Contains plans for six lessons that ask students to research the Gold Rush before teaching each other about it. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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University of Washington Libraries: Starting Research
If you need help knowing where to start your research, or if you're a teacher looking for a way to help students understand the research process, this resource is terrific. Interactive tutorials on a number of topics offer review quizzes...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creating Question and Answer Books Through Guided Research
Contains plans for five lessons that develop research skills in primary students by having them create their own question and answer books. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Iste Nets: Birthstone Project With a Multimedia Twist
This interdisciplinary project on birthstones, provided by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), focuses on research skills, writing skills, and the ability to put together an electronic presentation.
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Lost Colony Center for Science and Research: Lost Colony Dna Project
Explains the Lost Colony DNA Project which is attempting to find genetic links between people living today and the lost colonists of Roanoke Island. Also provides a list of family names of colonists and of descendant families that may be...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Career Technical Education Research
This lesson is designed to help students document their research for a year long capstone project. (Creating an Engineering Report)The students will be following the requirements for the Siemens Math, Science Technology competition....
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: Water Purification Project
A project through which students research the need for clean water, the technologies related to water purification, and design a component for a water purification system to be installed in a developing country.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Rookie Project
This is a three-part writing project which includes a research paper, a creative short story, and a movie review inspired by the movie, The Rookie. The lesson is easily adapted to other appropriate films of similar themes.
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: Strategies and Research in Instruction
Summarizes what is known about learning from research on the brain and suggests related strategies to use in the classroom. Also discusses the main techniques and strategies that are in wide use today including, for example,...
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Gscrp: Social, Economic and Political Change
The Global Social Change Research Project discusses why society develops the way that it does, how the various political systems develop, and how different customs and social systems come about. Some specific topics include: "what is...
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
Score: Latin American Marketing Project
This site from Score provides information on the global marketplace. This is a unit where young scholars are grouped to find out the best Latin American country to introduce a new fast food business. Site is very well outlined and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Going Batty
Young scholars will participate in a research project about bats, which will culminate in a virtual field trip to discover more about bats. Students will collect information on the Internet using the Alabama Virtual Library and other...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The History Behind Song Lyrics
Critical listening, research and historical information are all part of the material in this multi-disciplinary lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Beanie Baby Habitats Collaborative Project
With the booming market of "Beanie Baby" type stuffed animals being so prominent in learners' lives, this project brings that interest into the classroom through the use of research, science, hands-on experiences, and technology. The...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Measuring the Speed of 'Light' With a Microwave Oven
In this experiment, you will measure the speed of light using a microwave oven, some egg white, and a ruler. This short project proves to be an extremely interesting choice for a science lab, with pictures for illustration, and thorough...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Do Submarines Need Fins?
In this science project, you can investigate how submarines use stabilizing fins to move forward. Exploring friction and buoyant force you will get closer to understanding how these large ships function. Research resources are included...
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