A twenty-part learning module with images, websites, texts, and slideshows for students to use while working through a research project for Gary Paulsen's Hatchet.

An excellent tip sheet for using brainstorming techniques for writing research papers. It also gives great examples of factual and interpretive questions. It also provides links to very helpful tip sheets with examples and a worksheet...

Excellent site outlining each step for Internet research at the middle school and secondary levels. This site focuses on a variety of information literacy topics, from how to research, find and evaluate information, and cite sources....

What is problem, project, and inquiry based learning? This comprehensive website is full of resources to help you learn more about these teaching styles and strategies.

This simple page does a good job of articulating why research is an important process to teach to students, and it also provides a number of resources for teachers planning to do this.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn about different types of habitats as they gather information based on provided research questions. Students will summarize the information from their research in an...

Some ideas for research projects and activities for students, based on Lucy Maud Montgomery and her writings.

This online tutorial shows K-12 teachers how to harness the power of the World Wide Web for classroom use, and in particular for interaction, collaboration, distance education, cultural understanding and cooperative research -- with...

A lesson to research statistics of local birds to identify if any of the populations are in decline. Based on the research, students will recommend an action plan to help any populations which are struggling.

Students research the reconstruction efforts of the United States in Iraq and determine at least one positive result of the initiative. Upon completion of research, students will write to their legislators about what should be done next.

In this lesson students will research the explosion of the Mt. Vesuvius volcano by describing how they think the scene may have occurred in Pompeii.

In July 1975, the first joint Soviet-American spacecraft docking took place. In this activity, students will analyze the way that government officials in both the United States and the Soviet Union valued space exploration for more than...

Travel with your students on a Virtual Field Trip to learn about Temperate Forest Biomes. You will also discover many informative and interactive websites.

This is a project to conclude the study of the Judicial Branch of our government. The students, working in pairs, will be assigned a landmark Supreme Court case to research in a computer lab setting. They will then construct a one-page...

What exactly is a "questioning tool kit"? This resource provides techniques for asking essential questions, hypothetical questions, telling questions, planning questions and organizing questions.

Students will learn how to use presentation software to enhance learning. Student-created digital slideshow presentations can span the curriculum. Each student will prepare a presentation in one of the following curriculum areas:...