It is often necessary to stop students and have mini-lessons on research skills throughout the project. It might be useful to limit the time at each station if rotations need to be sped up. The research is designed to be done in groups and notes are taken on the recording form so as to hinder the use of complete sentences in note-taking. Note taking skills have been taught. When all resources have been searched and data has been gathered.
Students work in groups to compile data.
From there, they need to discuss how they want to go about presenting the information to their peers and teacher. Give groups some freedom of choice in how this will be done so as to insure student buy-in. However, all ideas must be approved by the teacher prior to beginning. Organize the research stations well ahead of time. I label each station with a bright sign so students know where they are.