1. Choose a topic. You may decide to research something from art, science, social studies, math, music, literature, or some other area of expertise. Below are a few topic ideas for you to consider.
2. Use the WEB to begin your research. Find at least 3 useful Web sites and take notes in WORD and SAVE to your home directory. Make sure to note bibliography information (author, title, URL, date).
3. Use your library time to find a book about your topic. You may bring a book from home if our library does not have it. Take notes and include bibliography information (author, title, publisher, city, date).
4. E-mail Mr. Brown and request permission to begin your report. Include the following in your request:
E-mail Request Guidelines
| 1. Name of topic. Make sure your topic is not too big! |
| 2. Include 3 useful Web sites. |
| 3. Include 5 FACTS |
| 4. Tell me how you will present your report. You may use WORD, PowerPoint, HyperStudio, or Windows MovieMaker. You may also make a poster, or come in costume! The sky is the limit!! |
| 5. Attach an INSPIRATION concept map of how you will organize your report. |
| E-MAIL REQUEST EXAMPLE:
Dear Mr. Brown, I would like to be a topic expert on the Moon. I have found 3 useful Web sites to use for my report: The Moon
The Moon
Nova Online: To the Moon
Five facts that I have found are: 1. The impact theory states that the moon actually was
created from the earth!
I plan to use PowerPoint to do my expert report on the Moon. Please find my attached Inspiration concept map of my report. Thank you for considering my request. Your student, Johnny Appleton |
If Mr. Brown approves your request,
you may begin your project. Please check the scoring rubric below OFTEN
to make sure that you earn an "A" for your effort.
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| 1. E-mail approval from Mr. Brown |
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| 2. Inspiration concept map |
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| 3. Project presented to class (due date will be e-mailed) |
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| 4. Complete bibliography |
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NASA image of planned Moon exploration.
You need to try to keep your topic narrow in focus. Do not try to be an expert about something so BIG that you feel like you are overwhelmed. Even my example about the moon is really too big. The only thing that makes my report on the moon possible, is that I have been careful to use Inspiration to map exactly what part of the moon I will be an expert on. Below are a few topic examples:
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| Famous artist | Digital cameras | Famous authors | Famous mathematician | Famous musician | All about an animal - such as "frogs" | A great leader | Famous athelete |
| Impressionists | Hand held organizers | Favorite genre: Mystery | Who uses decimals, and how do you keep track of them? | An instrument | A disease, and a cure. | A great society | Who, how, what, where, and when of cricket. |
| Sculpture | How computers work. | Poetry | Fractal geometry | Music genre: Jazz | Native plants of Florida | Election process | The Olympic Games |