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**Kindergarten Research Project**
K.W.6 With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. K.W.7 With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided resources to answer a question. K.SL.6 Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
 * Common Core Standards:**


 * Research Organizers:**

Students worked in small groups to research an animal. Each student collected facts from their research, wrote sentences from these facts, then combined their sentences in a group poster. In two classes, students printed pictures from Google images for their group poster. One class created group posters with the app Pic Collage, and then created individual posters as well.
 * 1st Project:**

Students researched animals from a particular biome (savannah, rain forest, ocean, etc.). Each student collected facts from their research, then wrote topic sentences, three detail sentences, and a conclusion. They then created individual posters using Pic Collage, printed the collages and combined them into a group poster that they presented.
 * 2nd Project**

3rd Grade Research Project
3.W.6 With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others. 3.W.7 Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic. 3.W.8 Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources, take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories. 3.SL.4 Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
 * Common Core Standards:**

Examples

4.W.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. 4.W.7 Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic. 4.W.6 With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others, demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of one page in a single setting. 4.SL.4 Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes, speak clearly at an understandable pace. 4.SL.5 Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.
 * __4th Grade Research __**
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In a collaborative project in science, students researched an invertebrate or vertebrate animal in the library. Using a graphic organizer, they took notes and gathered information, then created a storyboard with their information. They then created a book using the Storykit app, recording themselves reading their books. In art class, students also created a sculpture of their animal in its natural habitat. Projects may be seen online at http://langstonmc.wikispaces.com/4th+Grade
 * __1st __**** __project __ **

In science, 4 th  grade students also built roller coasters that contained a drop, a hill and a loop and had to successfully roll a marble through their roller coaster. Students used the camera of the iPads to document their experiments with the coasters, and then compiled their pictures into a flyer advertising their roller coaster and describing its construction.
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2nd project __**