Utah Education Network
Uen: Formulate a Career Plan
This lesson will engage students in career research. Each student will use the I-Search process and then write a 3-5 paper about a career of interest.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Choosing a Research Question
Nine slides discussing how to choose an effective question for a research project.
University of California
Ucla: How to Narrow or Broaden Your Topic?
How do you narrow or broaden your research topic? Use this informative educational website to find out how to accomplish this goal.
Education Development Center
Education Development Center: Tv411: Reading Structure of a News Story
Interactive lesson explains the content and organization of newspaper articles. Includes self-scoring exercises for practicing identifying the five W's (who, what, when, where, and why) in a series of brief news articles and a...
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Brainstorming Research Questions
An excellent tip sheet for using brainstorming techniques for writing research papers. It also gives great examples of factual and interpretive questions. It also provides links to very helpful tip sheets with examples and a worksheet...
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Selecting a Research Topic
A good resource which explains and outlines a student's choices when confronted with choosing a research topic. Includes links to an overview, focusing your topic, and more.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Synthesize Ideas and Details in Several Texts (English I Reading)
Synthesize ideas and details in texts and support the connections with textual evidence.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Inquiry on the Internet: Evaluating Web Pgs for Class Collection
A four-session lesson plan that leads to a class collection of resources is a solid introduction to both searching skills and evaluation. Could be used with any number of subject areas.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: In the Mirror of Genre
A teacher's research project page that explores his students' journal responses to various literary works. Basic and limited entries.
Other
Reading Comprehension: Question Answer Relationships
If you need help working with your students on questioning a text or if you are working on higher-level questioning skills, this is a simple and helpful site. Printable resources available from site.
TES Global
Blendspace: Lights, Camera, Action! Documentary Research Project
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, texts, and videos to use while completing a documentary research project.
TES Global
Blendspace: Evaluating Sources
A seven-part learning module with links to texts, videos, slides, and a quiz to use while learning how to evaluate research sources.
TES Global
Blendspace: Research Websites for Kids
Eight links to kid-friendly websites for gathering research.
TES Global
Blendspace: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
An eleven-part learning module with links to websites, an image, and a video about using questioning skills to research and write about one's family history.
TES Global
Blendspace: Primary Sources
A learning module with twenty-three links to videos, texts, images, websites, texts, and a quiz about primary sources.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Research Questions
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson explores the steps of the research process - selecting an appropriate research topic, and delving more into the topic.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Research Resources
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart poses a series of questions to students asking them to select the appropriate resource source given the information in the questions.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Leads in an Essay
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an informational flip chart with examples of different types of leads that will make student writing more attention-grabbing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Library Online
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to help teach students about using the Winnebago online catalog system for finding research materials. It also explains the needed information for a proper bibliography.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Refining Internet and Database Searches
This lesson discusses how to refine a search to produces better results. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Cornell University
Cornell University: Library: How to Find and Develop a Viable Research Topic
This resource offers a few suggestions to get you started with the research process.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Claim and Support Vocabulary: Match
In this interactive game, students match vocabulary words relating to argumentative writing claims and support to their definitions. The game can be played multiple times to use all 20 words.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Creating a Works Cited
The intended learning outcomes are to identify the basic elements of a citation, and to understand that the elements of a citation vary with the format of the source cited (e.g. book v. magazine article v. online resource), and to know...