Day 1 of Project

Today we began our Explorer project!  I have 24 students in my class so I made 6 groups and assigned 4 students to each group.  The students were then given the outline of the project and the name of the explorer they would be researching.  Within their groups the students were given organizers, textbooks, picture books, and computers with Internet access to research their explorer. During our Social Studies period the students were required to take notes and bullet key information about their explorer.  For homework, the students were assigned to complete a rough draft of their paragraphs.