Students will conduct a short research project about a topic. This lesson focuses on how to find the information needed on their chosen topic.

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

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...

This site investigates current projects about diabetes that are being researched by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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...

Students will plan a human expedition to the planet Mars. Through this project-based activity, they can choose to learn about the surface of Mars, the trip route, the analogical features between Mars and Earth, nutrition and exercise, or...

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...

This lesson for high school students explores the race riot in Chicago in the summer of 1919. Students are asked to explain the reasons for the riot and address the questions in the lesson. Included are excerpts from 26 primary source...

Middle school lesson plan attempts to answer the question of the government's Indian policy and its relationship to the Cherokee. Learners will use sections from 26 primary source documents to aid in the research.

Students investigate sound in their environment, particularly how sounds impact their lives. At the beginning of the unit, students use online simulations to investigate the properties of sound and learn about the components of a sound...

Contains plans for five lessons that develop research skills in primary young scholars by having them create their own question and answer books. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites...

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.

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...

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.

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 instructional activity is easily adapted to other appropriate films of similar themes.

This project resulted from of the collaboration of a computer aided drafting teacher, Chris Bond, and a math teacher, Lee Cable, (Hewitt-Trussville High School) to provide higher math expectations in CT and real life application in...

This high school lesson focuses on the Homestead Strike of 1892. Students are asked to write an essay explaining why the strike occurred and how the Carnegie Company went about winning the strike. Included are twenty-seven primary source...

Use this site to learn about the contributions of Marian Wright Edelman, a civil rights activist and the founder of the Washington Research Project, which "engendered the Children's Defense Fund." This article includes "related links"...

This site from Score provides information on the global marketplace. This is a unit where students are grouped to find out the best Latin American country to introduce a new fast food business. Site is very well outlined and includes...

Homepage for an association of professional nurses working in psychiatric settings. Library resources include audio/visual, books, online journals and publications, and research projects. Educational and professional resources and web...

This is an introduction to personality research, explaining the rationale and scope of current personality research. The project is a product of the Personality, Motivation and Cognition laboratory at Northwestern University.

Critical listening, research and historical information are all part of the material in this multi-disciplinary instructional activity.

Imagine that a biologist arrived at your big family reunion and had no idea who were sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc., but tried to sort it out by how all of you look. Just based on how you look, would s/he be able to guess whether...

How your ears and your brain turn the sound waves out there in the world into the experience of music in your head, remains a mystery to many, but yet we all experience and even enjoy sounds and music. If you're interested in doing a...