Victoria's Research

I started her on research today. She has a link to her KWL chart with her questions she wants to answer. We are using two different laptops. I had to rent a laptop for the week so we would be able to do this project in such a short period of time. If I had more time to show her how to research and use the internet tools I would have just demonstrated and then have her do it. For now she is going to shadow me. She started with her first question "when did they make games?" She could not find any information. I had her go to www.askkids.com to search for her question and she couldn't come up with anything. Next, I had her go to www.dogpile.com since I found out today two of my fellow classmates received a virus after using the links that were provided on webct. She still couldn't find anything. I advised her to narrow her question a little more. She revised her question to ask: "When did they make video game?" After doing this she found some results and was able to answer her question. I then had her go onto a word processor and type up her information. Once she was done I emailed it to her mom to post onto her blog. I only had her research this question because of time constraints and technology problems. We then made a movie on her findings. I started the project for her on my laptop and we did the project together because, for me, this was a little difficult and she is an eleven year old who has been put under a little pressure. All of the research she did on her own. I did have to scaffold a little every now and then but that was to be expected.