The generation of topics or problems, depends on the educators use of strategies that run the gamut of Bloom's Taxonomy of higher-order thinking skills. In this way, students of various abilities and educational level can find success. These strategies must be easy for teachers to create, and easy for students to find information and then report. They must be brief in duration but frequent enough that research skills are learned, maintained, and then expanded. Research two signers of the Declaration of Independence that were not in the textbook and show how their backgrounds connected them to this event.
Teachers assign the appropriate time period.
Critique - Students research a popular idea, custom, belief, or trend, and provide a logical argument for revising, eliminating or expanding it. Students research a controversial issue, select a side and create an argument to support their opinion. Given a past event or series of events, create a scenario that may occur in the near future. All rights reserved.