Research without Regurgitation

Brain with lightning
By Allan Ajifo [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Want to move from the traditional research project to a more engaging process that requires students to use the information they find? When students use facts to do something instead of just repeating them, it increases retention of the information because they don’t just “spit it back”, but have to engage with the information many times to use it. A side effect can also be an increase in motivation and engagement.

Below, you will find the PowerPoint for the session, materials for the “Death of the Iceman project”, and all the materials for the Animal and Country research project (including tech tips for Excel and PowerPoint).

Research_without_Regurgitation-October-2020Download – PowerPoint file – 5 MB

The PowerPoint includes:

  • How do you generate good questions?
  • What about plagiarism?
  • Look at the purpose of what you’re doing!
  • Ideas for small (short-term) or large (long-term) research projects
  • Resources to use to help create effective projects
  • Some of the projects and ideas that I use in my teaching

Death of the Iceman project:

Cornell Notes Template – Iceman notesDownload – Word file – 17 K
Persuasive Essay rubricDownload – Excel file – 17 K

Animal and Country Project

Timeline and ActivitiesDownload – Word file – 41 K
Project ChecklistDownload – Excel file – 31 K
Animal assignments ONLY – ROSEDownload – Word file – 51 K
Animal Data-gathering templateDownload – Word file – 109 K
Country and Animal assignmentsDownload – Word file – 30 K
Country Data-gathering templateDownload – Word file – 53 K
DEMO – US vs Country dataDownload – Excel file – 25 K
MLA Citation template – BookDownload – Word file – 20 K
MLA Citation template – WebsiteDownload – Word file – 20 K
End of Project evaluationDownload – Word file – 28 K

Technology Instructions:

Excel:

Using Excel for graphsDownload – Word file – 39 K

PowerPoint:

PowerPoint InstructionsDownload – Word file – 59 K
PowerPoint storyboardDownload – Word file – 32 K
PowerPoint storyboard checklistDownload – Word file – 21 K
PowerPoint Scoring RubricsDownload – Word file – 61 K