Shared Research Projects
Participate in shared research and writing projects; recall information from experiences or gather information from sources to answer a question
What a learner can do afterwards
- Contribute ideas and information to a class writing project
- Draw or write facts learned from personal experience about a topic
- Help gather information from books or adults for a group research task
1 · Read
Your class can pick one topic to study. Maybe frogs, maybe the moon. Everyone looks for facts. Then everyone writes what they learned.
Mia's class studies bears. She looks in a book. She also asks her dad. She writes: bears sleep all winter.
You can learn facts from books. You can ask people too. You can also remember things you have seen. Try more than one place.
Pick a topic, find facts, then write and share what you learned.
More to read
Choosing & Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research, 1st Canadian Edition
When the class has a big question, where can we find answers? We can look in books. We can ask a grown-up. We can look at a picture or a video. These places are called sources. A source is a place that holds information. Good researchers use more than one source. If two books say the same thing, we can trust it more. Then we share what we found with our friends. When everyone shares, the class can answer big questions together.
8.2 Analytical Report Trailblazer: Barbara Ehrenreich
There was a writer named Barbara. She wanted to know what life was like for people with hard jobs. So she tried the jobs herself! She waited tables and cleaned rooms. She watched closely and wrote down what she saw. Then she wrote a book so others could learn too. You can do this too. Try something new. Watch closely. Draw or write what you learned. That is research from your own experience.
6.5 Writing Process: Creating a Proposal
Want to write something with your class? Start with a question. Maybe you wonder what butterflies eat. Next, find facts. Look in a book. Ask your teacher. Write down or draw what you learn. Then share your facts with the group. The group puts all the facts together. Now you have a class project.
Projects
Pick a question, like what do bees do in winter? Find two books about it. Look in each book for an answer. Write down what you learn, or draw it. Tell your friends what you found. When everyone shares, the class knows more than one person could find alone.
2.4 Gathering Information, Evaluating Sources, and Understanding Evidence
Some facts are true and some are not. How can we tell? We can check. Look in another book and see if it says the same thing. Ask a teacher or a grown-up. Look at who wrote the words. A doctor knows about bodies. A farmer knows about plants. When you find the same fact in two good places, you can trust it.
2 · Watch
En anglaisTake it off screen
Where it sits
Learn first
Nothing; this is a starting point.
Optional connections
This opens up
Where this leads
Jobs that lean on this skill. Follow one to see everything it is built on.
8 questions wait behind this lesson, each with its answer explained. Every answer feeds the sky: stars light as they are learned, and dim when it is time to come back.