An article describing a research project where students and teachers spent six weeks during the summer investigating bogs. Learn more about the program in general as well as what teachers and students discovered during their research.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 6 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.4.7: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation...

Research paper writing is a lofty goal for kindergarten students, but this instructional activity will expose them to the process without being overwhelming. Students will divide into teams to learn about ocean creatures and then write a...

A twelve-part learning module with links to images, texts, and videos to use while completing a documentary research project.

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.

This resource provides guided research teaching units for all levels of learners.

A wealth of information regarding the robotics projects at McGill University. Includes photos, video and informative text.

After pairing professional mathematicians with groups of students, wonderful activities emerged. There are projects on this site, and use them in your own classroom.

Students will use the Internet to gather key facts using a variety of online resources and present their findings in a word processed paper in APA style.

This site includes images of the Antikythera Mechanism, a description of this device and modern-day recreations.

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...

This eleven-page research paper provides an example of a historical research project. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.

This is a comprehensive aid to leading research projects about military operations in World War II.

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...

Subtitled "Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in the Electronic Age," this article is particularly addressed to teachers who assign research projects.

Explore the universe like you have never seen it. Take part in classifying images of galaxies taken from the Hubble telescope archives. This is a crowdsourced scientific research project.

In this first unit of a course on Art Appreciation, students are instructed in how the entire course is organized, what to expect, what course symbols mean, rubrics used in assessment, and what plagiarism is. The next section explains...

In this lesson, students will learn how to develop a thesis and an introduction for a research project. W.11-12.2a Intro/Format

Nine slides discussing how to choose an effective question for a research project.

Want a realistic timeline for that research project? Use these tips and resources to get a handle on what to do and when to do it. It offers templates several types of research projects such as speech, media project, primary sources,...

This Sophia video lesson introduces how to develop good questions for a research paper. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 Conduct short research projects. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 standards are addressed in...

Students in Grades 4 through 8 will benefit from these research skills activities. This resource provides several learning activities and tips. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 Conduct short research projects

This lesson allows students to compare and contrast print text structure with that of an online site. Students work together and use worksheets in comprehending the informational text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 Conduct short research...

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...