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Broward Education Foundation

Broward Education Foundation: Project Living History [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Inquiry research is self-directed and project-based on the grade-level curriculum. Students begin an area of inquiry research becoming a critical historian. Focusing on research writing involves reading and a digital search on Destiny...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: From Here to Narnia

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson will provide eighth grade Language Arts students with an inquiry-based research project based on C. S. Lewis' classic, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The student will determine the author's purpose in writing this...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Gossip to Learn: A Juicy Approach to Research

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Though teachers might use this student-centered, technology-based, one or two-day research project to introduce any author, English 12 teachers may wish to use the lesson to jump-start a unit on British literature from the Romantic...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Project Author Study

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides information about an author study. Students will find a multi-step project to help students effectively investigate an author during research. Reproducible graphic organizers are provided.
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Other

L.m. Montgomery Institute: Project Ideas & Activities

For Students 3rd - 8th
Some ideas for research projects and activities for students, based on Lucy Maud Montgomery and her writings.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Sample Author Study

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an exemplar of the expectations for an independent class project. Each student must study an author and meet the criteria listed on the page.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analysis of Relative Values of Specific Data, Facts, and Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on analyzing and evaluating the value of the sources used for evidence in a research project.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creating Question and Answer Books Through Guided Research

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
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Other

Lausd: Julie of the Wolves Literature Guide

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site features a guide to Jean Craighead George's book "Julie and the Wolves." This project is designed specifically for advanced English Language learners to learn about the Eskimos and Native American population.
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EL Education

El Education: First Come the Eggs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
First Come the Eggs, a picture book for young readers, was created by 3rd grade students in Rochester, New York. This is a biography of Seth Green, the father of fish hatcheries in America. The research included the study of the life...
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EL Education

El Education: 12 Angry Jurors

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a playbill for a 9th grade play 12 Angry Jurors, adapted from the movie 12 Angry Men. Students designed the playbill which includes school information, credits, cast and author bios, a summary of the play, an investigation of the...
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Other

University of Exeter: The Significance of Celtic Coinage

For Students 9th - 10th
The author discusses how the use of coins grew, faded, then grew again in Britain, from Celtic times through Roman rule and Anglo-Saxon times. He contrasts the use of coins in Wales and explains why Welsh money developed differently. The...
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My Hero Project

My Hero: Chief Joseph

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief student-written article on Chief Joseph and his efforts to maintain peace between his people and the white settlers includes several links to further information and books for further reading and research.
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My Hero Project

My Hero: R. Buckminster Fuller

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief article on Richard Buckminister Fuller overviews his career as an architect and author and provides images and resources for further reading and research.
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Other

University of Exeter: Britain and European Monetary Union

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of the strength of the British pound sterling and why England has chosen not to join its European neighbors in the use of the Euro as a common currency. The author has a background in research and in the history of finance.
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Other

University of Exeter: Money and Coins in Wales

For Students 9th - 10th
This article shows the difference in use of coinage in Wales as compared to Britain, Scotland and Ireland. The author has a background in research and the history of finance.
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University of California

University of Cal: Critical Thinking in an Online World

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article discusses why and how to encourage the development of critical thinking skills for students conducting research on the Web. The author even presents an overview of a project that you could adapt to your class.
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EL Education

El Education: Our Book of Tools

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students choose a tool from a photograph and then become an expert on that tool. Through field visits to a hardware store, interviews with community members, and descriptive writing exercises, students learn the use of each tool....
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International Reading Association

Reading Online: Electronic Classroom: A Web Quest for Because of Winn Dixie

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site includes an excellent WebQuest related to Kate DiCamillo's book, Because of Winn-Dixie. Vocabulary exercises, story frames, story pyramids, social studies, and science links are part of this WebQuest for students. As this is an...