Middle School Research Project - Inventions and Innovations STEM Research
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Engage your students in this inventions and innovations research project for middle school! Throughout this multi-day innovation research project your students will have fun researching and learning about famous inventors and inventions, then they will present their findings to the class.
Research Skills:
✅ Evaluating Sources
✅ Citing and Paraphrasing Evidence
✅ Analyzing Claims
This innovation based middle school research project will allow your students to explore their creativity as they present their findings through a variety of creative written and artist projects. Students are engaged and excited as they present their results in an alternative to a formal paper.
Included in this inventions and innovations middle school research project…
1. Full Teacher’s Guide
- Project options
- Suggestions for research phases
- Considerations for student workdays
- Ideas for showcasing student work
2. Editable project materials, rubrics, and unit plan
- Research Prep Sheet
- Research Project Checkpoints
- Mini-Project Guidelines
- Rubric
3. Activities and handouts to build research skills (paper + digital)
- Integrating Sources with model text (“In Focus: Gordon Parks”)
- Source Sheet/Source Cards
- Research Overview Booklet (or Slideshow)
- MLA Cheat Sheet
- Interview activity
4. Presentation Feedback Slips you can reuse for any project
This is a complete middle school research project based on the Big6 Style, differentiated to meet the needs of your high-achievers as well as struggling readers, LEP students, and EC students. Your students can complete 1 or 2 "common" projects (your choice) and then add 2 or 3 of their own choice from a choice board. This is the perfect balance of student choice and making sure students develop some foundational skills.
You will LOVE that you can reuse several components of this research middle school project such as the presentations, research guidelines, and evaluation sheets. You will also love the innovation your students will experience when they complete this research project!
What other teachers are saying:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Love the organization and easy to use "how to" parts of the projects. This really allows kiddos to try it out before completing their project.” - Heather P.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This was a great and easy way for my students to start doing research. I will definitely use it again this year.” - Adrienne E.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I used this with a unit about famous inventors and inventions. Very helpful :)” - Buyer
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Love the prep sheet and all the ideas for the mini-projects.” - Kathleen H.
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