Hi again —

We’re trying to get a head start on this year’s “Nudging Toward Inquiry” columns, so here’s a request for your best tips about how you’re deepening your work with 3-5 researchers.

Here are some questions we have on our mind as we think about research with upper elementary kids.

- What databases or open Web sites do you use?

- How are you dividing kids into groups? Homogenously? Heterogeneously? Or do kids work alone? Why?

- How do you sustain student engagement with a topic if you’re on fixed schedule and projects take multiple weeks to create?

- Do you do several short projects or a few long ones?

- What is the collaborative role between you and the teacher?

- At what point, if any, do you hand off the work to the teacher to finish in the classroom?

- How do you assess? What are you looking for?

- How do you deal with citation with this age group?

- How do students share what they’ve learned?

- How do you teach search to this age group?

We’d love to hear from you (and have a chance to get a few of these columns written before the busy school year begins!).

Thanks!

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