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Shared Research Projects

Participate in shared research and writing projects; recall information from experiences or gather information from sources to answer a question

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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

The lesson

Your class can pick one topic to study. Maybe frogs, maybe the moon. Everyone looks for facts. Then everyone writes what they learned.

Try it together

Mia's class studies bears. She looks in a book. She also asks her dad. She writes: bears sleep all winter.

Pick topicFind factsWrite factsShare it
Four steps for a research project: pick, find, write, share.
Good to know

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.

Watch it

Where it sits

Where this leads

Jobs that lean on this skill. Follow one to see everything it is built on.

Then practise

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.

Shared Research Projects · English, ages 5 to 9 · LightMySky