Updated on March 10, 2017
These websites help kids and high school students learn the research skills they need to write papers and reports for school. For excellent websites that are kid-friendly for children to conduct research and compile references and bibliographies, look at the section for Online References.
Designed for college students at the U. of Idaho, this site offers a research tutorial that is equally useful to high school students. The tutorial consists of modular lessons for developing research for a school paper. The first module discusses…
This online booklet guides students and teachers through the process of historical research. It models the process of historical inquiry by stepping students through a sample inquiry. Students can then use the model and coaching support to create their own…
This Virtual Training Suite contains sets of tutorials to help students develop their online research skills. Although the primary audience is university students in the UK, students doing research projects for AP courses in the US will also find them…
This site offers Super3 and Big6™ approaches to planning, writing, and reviewing any type of school project. The Super3 approach – Plan, Do, Review – is designed for children in grades K-2. The site provides activities for teachers to use…
Kentucky Virtual Library offers two excellent guides for K-12 students on how to do research for a project, paper or presentation. For younger students, grades 3-6, there is a graphic guide. For older students, grades 7-12, there is a modular…
This site helps students and teachers make effective use of primary sources. The Making Sense of Documents segment provide strategies for analyzing online primary sources, with interactive exercises and a guide to traditional and online sources. The Scholars in Action…
From site: Hints about Print, included in an extended research skills unit which also employs the Fact Fragment Frenzy interactive, aids students in evaluating print resources that contain the facts they need for compiling their research. The tool asks prompting…