From: Carrie Donovan (carried@umd.edu)
Date: 03/10/03
Hi,
In response to the teaching research question:
I think that if you broaden the concept of what research is you can easily
do a one-day class - if not more - on research methods. I work with high
school students on an afterschool project researching the history of
desegregation in the county's schools. When we started we had long
discussions about how we learn about the past. We talked about primary
sources and looked at old yearbooks, newspapers, magazines, and photos. In
this category, we also discussed the importance of talking to people. We
have been interviewing community members and collecting oral histories. If
you do interviews (or just one as an example) you can spend time going
over the rules for quotations. We've also looked at books written about
the county and other secondary sources.
We did one activity to counter some students' over-reliance on the web as
an info source. We all went to the library, and found different reference
books on our topic. We gave each student a card with the name of a
different historical event, for instance "Brown v The Board of Education."
Students could research the event however they wanted - via the web,
books, or talking to a teacher. Some found their events quite quickly in
the indexes of books, others searched the web and came up with sites, and
everyone shared their methods.
If you do create a class on research, and work w/ students to do something
like a community research project, it will take a lot of time - at least
that's been our experience. Hope this helps!
Carrie
Carrie Donovan
Youth Director
The Center for Information & Research
on Civic Learning & Engagement
(CIRCLE)
301.405.8261
www.civicyouth.org
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