Stop the Copying with Wild and Wacky Research Projects
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2008
188 pages
978-0-313-36377-1 (ISBN)
Description
Did you know
A famous French chef created her greatest recipe BEFORE she learned to cook!
The first airmail letters went by train.
McDonald's opened its first restaurant as a barbecue stand.
The best way to prevent a toothache is to wear a dead mole around your neck.
These and many other wacky but true facts serve as springboards to research about people, places, food, animals, and historical events.
Students are asked to create poems, games, quizzes and other products in lieu of traditional written reports in this new book of ideas keyed to standards in writing, reading comprehension and information literacy.
Based on one of Nancy Polette's most popular workshops (Research Without Copying), this book will appeal to school librarians and teachers in grades 4-8. Extensive bibliographies of recommended resources add to the usability of this title.
A famous French chef created her greatest recipe BEFORE she learned to cook!
The first airmail letters went by train.
McDonald's opened its first restaurant as a barbecue stand.
The best way to prevent a toothache is to wear a dead mole around your neck.
These and many other wacky but true facts serve as springboards to research about people, places, food, animals, and historical events.
Students are asked to create poems, games, quizzes and other products in lieu of traditional written reports in this new book of ideas keyed to standards in writing, reading comprehension and information literacy.
Based on one of Nancy Polette's most popular workshops (Research Without Copying), this book will appeal to school librarians and teachers in grades 4-8. Extensive bibliographies of recommended resources add to the usability of this title.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
ISBN-13
978-0-313-36377-1 (9780313363771)
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Nancy J. Polette is professor of education at Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, author of more than 100 professional books, and an in-demand speaker at state and national library, gifted, and reading conferences.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Part One: Food for Thought
- Wacky Vegetables
- Research Report: Ode to an Onion
- News Release
- Research Report: Fact or Myth?
- Research Report: Ketchup Ice Cream
- Dictionary Skills: The TV Was His Dinner
- Research Report: Champion Hot Dog Eater
- The Greatest Recipe
- Creative Writing: Writing a Fable
- Research Report: K Rations
- Resources: Food
- Part Two: On the Move!
- Flying
- Research Report: The Aviation First Nobody Wanted
- Highlights in Aviation
- Research Report: The Simile Report
- Research Report: Firsts in Aviation
- Research Skills: First to Fly in a Lawn Chair
- Creative Writing: The Miracle Girl
- Famous Firsts
- Research Model: Another Alarmist
- Research Report: Protector of the Ocean
- Research Report: Want to Buy a Car?
- Research Report: Ten Reasons Not to Buy a
- Resources: On the Move!
- Part Three: The Doctor Is In!
- Cures When there Were No Cures
- Dictionary Practice: Why I Missed School Today
- Quiz: An Electrical Cure
- Doctors
- Research Report: The Doctor Who Went to Jail for Setting a Broken Bone!
- Creative Writing: Was She a Criminal?
- Quiz: Firsts in Medicine
- Resources: Medicine
- Part Four: Crime Doesn't Pay
- Quiz: Crime Doesn't Pay
- Research Report: Intruder Causes Traffic Jam . . . No Ticket Given
- Master Criminals Turned Detectives
- Research Report: Outlaws of the Wild West
- Research Skills: Mystery Scavenger Hunt
- Guilty or Innocent?
- Conclusion Paper: The Persuasive Essay
- Resources: Crime
- Part Five: The White House
- Those Surprising Presidents
- Research Report: Favorite Songs
- Those Surprising First Ladies!
- Research Report: The First Ladies
- Ghosts in the White House
- Creative Writing: Create a White House Ghost Story
- Quiz: The White House
- Resources: The Presidents and Their Wives
- Part Six: People Who Were First
- More Crazy Firsts
- Quiz: Amazing Firsts for Women
- Research Report: A Rap
- More Little-Known Firsts
- Research Report: Famous First Facts
- Despite a Handicap
- Research Report: The A- Z Report
- Resources: People Who Were First
- Part Seven: Unbelievable People
- Unbelievable Walkers
- Research Report: The Youngest Runner
- Research Report: Exercise or Meditation?
- Creative Writing: Magnetic People
- Dictionary Skills: Wolf Girls
- About Misers
- Research Report: The Acrostic
- Research Report: Ahead of His Time
- Research Report: The $ 65 Million Pants
- Research Report: The Man Without a Country
- Research Report: The Girl Who Chased Fire Engines
- Research Report: People Invent the Strangest Things!
- Resources: Unusual People
- Part Eight: Bits of History
- Conclusion Paper: Did Columbus Really Discover America? (1492)
- Impostor! (1771)
- Research Report: Impostors
- Research Report: The Alamo (1836)
- Research Report: A Funeral for a Leg (1837)
- Conclusion Paper: Fact or Legend? The Lost Dutchman Mine (1845)
- Bits of History from the Civil War
- Research Report: The Civil War (1861-1865)
- Quiz: A Civil War Quiz
- The Wild West: Was She Really a Calamity? (1865)
- Research Report: Women of the Wild West (1850-1880)
- How Wild Was the Wild West? (1870s)
- Research Report: Which Town Was the Wildest? (1870s)
- Literary Description: Wild West Towns (1870s)
- One-Eyed Charlie, 1812-1879
- Research Report: First Woman to Vote (1868)
- Research Report: Stagecoach Robbers
- Combining History and Creative Writing
- The Beat of America
- Research Report: It Wasn't Mrs. O'Leary's Cow! (1871)
- Research Report: Artifacts (1840-1890)
- World War I (1917)
- Main Idea: Stubby, Hero of 17 Battles
- Research Report: The Great Molasses Disaster of 1919
- Research Report: Disasters
- Quiz: World War II: Operation Mincemeat (1940-1945)
- The Dancer Was a Spy (1939-1945)
- Research Report: Researching Women Spies (1776-1865)
- Research Report: The Bing Crosby Code (1975)
- Research Report: Yesterday and Today (1900-200_)
- Research Report: A Historical Birthday Card
- Resources: History
- Part Nine: The Earth and Its Creatures
- Research Report: When The River Ran Backwards
- Mnemonics
- Mnemonics: The Boiling Lake
- Treasure Island
- Research Report: Researching Pirates
- Creative Writing: Strange Rains
- Creative Writing: Singing Sands
- Endangered Species
- Research Report: Endangered Species
- Marvelous Mammals
- Creative Writing: More Marvelous Mammals
- Creative Writing: Story Outline
- Creative Writing: The________________Enjoys a Holiday!
- Animal Heroes
- Research Report: The Newshound!
- Resources: The Earth and Its Creatures
- Part Ten: The Unexplained
- The Devil Ship
- Research Activity: Ballad of Hunley's Boats
- The P-40 Ghost Plane
- Mysterious Places: The Bermuda Triangle
- Research Report: Mysterious Places
- Ancient Curses
- Write an Obituary
- Strange Creatures
- Research Activity: The Rhyming Acrostic
- Resources: The Unexplained
- Bibliography: Additional References
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
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- K
- L
- M
- N
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