thing# research project

I have created a lesson plan for a small research project in my geometry class. The topic is the Pythagorean Theorem. There are several parts to the project, but the part I will discuss here is the research. I arranged with our librarian ahead of time for the students to make a library visit. There the students were introducedto the connect. spps.org site for their reliable resources by our wonderful librarian. She was able to walk them through the reseach process and show them grolier online. The students were able to find a bit of history abour Pythagoras. She explained that although google was indeed an easy search engine it was not always reliable. She also took the time to talk about typing documents using a gmail account so that students can access their papers to print them in the school library. She had sheets available for the students to set up an account and many of the students were able to do this quickly. I had also arranged for a cart of Ibooks so that each of the students could begin their research. Some of the students did not think that it made sense to research in a Math class. Research is for Social Studies and English. I find that very interesting....