Research Modules

Research Modules are mini research activities using the Internet. This is an organized approach to using the Internet since the teachers will have several sites designated for the students to access.
The activity associated with the Internet site consists or six parts: essential question, Internet sources, student activity, assessment, enrichment, and teacher information.

The essential question is an intriguing question that evokes student interest. If the question is captivating, the students will want to research the Internet to discover the answer.

Next follows a listing of Internet resources that the teacher has found for student use. The teacher then designs an activity that students will create that makes use of the information found from the Internet resources. Then there follows an authentic assessment, which may include a rubric, that measures the student knowledge gained from the activity.

The teacher provides enrichment activities for the early finishers, which may include interactive web sites about the research question. In the teacher information section of the research module, curriculum standards are listed as well as other resources that teachers may use in teaching the unit of study.

The following web sites are good examples of the research module:

Good example of a research module
http://questioning.org/module2/storm1.html

A variety of research module examples at this site
http://www.bcpl.net/~sullivan/modules/#anchor7576202

Sample modules found at this site
http://questioning.org/module/modules.html

Look at the samples created by teachers
http://questioning.org/module2/quick9.html

http://www.gpisd.org/gpisd/modules/Elementary/Careers/Visit_1.1_career.html