Teacher+Tools+-+Developing+Projects

[] More and more librarians and teachers are seeing that using a single Research Process Model, which applies across the curriculum and across grade levels can be really fruitful for kids. By breaking the process down into named steps (which are also teachable individually....spotting needs and working on specific areas...and assessable individually...helping the students gain self-consciousness regarding skills and strengths) students prosper as the Process is repeated over and over. The Big6 is probably the most well known and offers an excellent set of resources as well.

[] Another aspect of project development and research deeply related to the ease of access to information with the internet era, is the problem of cut and paste projects. There was a time when FINDING the information was the point of any project but that's not true any more. You don't even have to be able to spell something right in order to locate oodles of information. David Loertscher is a brilliant librarian and educator who offers here 15 complete models, applicable to different kinds of projects that encourage higher level thinking and discourage cut and paste.

[] And last, is this wonderful site from the Dalton School. Are you wondering where the project you've developed falls in Bloom's Taxonomy? Look at these question stems or use them to develop a higher level project.