Students review what they know, and, more importantly, what they don't know. Students decide which topics will be tackled by individual team members based on talent or interest and which issues will become the task of the group at large. Teams develop a research plan to study their issue. The class analyzes the feasibility of the individual research plans and investigates a practical application of a class research study. Teams conduct considerable research, largely via Internet, as teams challenge each other's findings.
Students dismiss nondocumented information as unreliable and concentrate on supportable issues.
Students massage these supportable issues in a final class research study. Individual teams complete tasks as the research continues. Students reconvene as a class and determine if all of the research issues have been resolved. Students attach old concepts to new ideas as they progress through the problem. Students communicate their study results to a larger audience.