The process of travel can be combined with the parallel process of research by developing a writing project assignment that uses the "Travels of William Bartram," an eighteenth-century account of a naturalist's journey through the Carolinas. Students can be asked to select a point on Bartram's original itinerary and retrace his discovery…

Describes five types of language research projects that enable students to examine language for themselves. (DD)

Describes two methods of invigorating student research in social studies. Showcase events are culminating activities or simulations which demonstrate student learning in an active, imaginative, and involving way. Snapshots are dramatic interpretations of specific moments in time. Examples of both methods are provided along with suggestions for…

Described are methods that secondary students can use in social science research projects. They include case studies, interviews, questionnaires, and participant observation. (RM)

An 18-week economics course for high school students is described. Students develop and present a group project that explains and justifies an economic policy for the United States, develop their own economic seminar consisting of student-invited speakers from the community, conduct economic research, and simulate a community business. (RM)

Discusses three techniques for improving students' research skills: "I" research or personal history, skimming and notetaking in library research, and interviewing. (HTH)

Using colored construction paper, students trace around their shoes and cut out two forms. Students then pick and research an event from the time period in history under study and write a report on the representations of shoe soles. The reports are taped, in order of occurrence, around the classroom. (RM)

The reading program described in this lesson plan supports students' exploration of multiple sources to create a timeline about the life of a person of their choosing and requires students to work together and to research and resolve potentially conflicting pieces of information about the life they research. During three 40-minute lessons,…

This lesson plan is concerned with early humankind and its development into human societies. It presents four topics for Unit I: (1) cave art; (2) paleontological discoveries; (3) evolution from hunting-gathering to farming; and (4) development of language. It also suggests completion time for each topic; addresses the uses and significance of the…

Presents an assignment that helps technical writing students develop skills in preparing literature reviews. (RL)

Reports on a teaching technique that emphasizes the logical, sequential developments involved in business report writing by having students follow a model business report as they work on their own research projects. (RL)

Suggestions are listed for using similes as bases for learning activities in science. Adages such as "as wise as an owl,""as busy as a bee," and "as blind as a bat" are discussed as topics for library and reading skills, science, and communicative arts. (CS)

Describes the techniques used in an English methods class to make informal researchers of the in-service teachers attending the class. (DD)

Proposes an examination of the motives in having biochemistry students perform practical laboratory exercises. Suggests that a typical course should be viewed as a progression of skills development culminating in a final year, open-ended research project that demands that the skills be used competently and efficiently. (DDR)

Ideas are offered for in-depth projects that foster individual creativity and production in elementary and middle school gifted students. The projects cover various topics in the areas of charting, essay writing and theme writing, journalism, graphing, politics, speech, government, biography, history, state history, investigation, and industry.…