Description
Our Short Research Projects lesson plan teaches students all about research projects, from organizing your research to writing a topic sentence to properly citing your sources. During this lesson, students are asked to read a given short research report and use the provided rubric to score the report based on criteria such as organization and quality of information; they then compare the scores they gave with a classmate. Students are also asked to complete their own research project from start to finish, allowing them to practice using the skills they learned during this lesson.
At the end of the lesson, students will be able to select a diversity of appropriate and credible sources for conducting short research projects, cite the source of information using a standard format (MLA, APA, etc.) when using sources in short research, and paraphrase and avoid copying directly information from sources.
