1. Principal Research Teams: The Research Process
Session 2, May 2014 NTI
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2. Learning Target
I can describe best practices for engaging students in research that leads to opinion/arguments supported with evidence.
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3. Introductions Divide your table into two groups.
Share your name, role and an example from your own life of something that you have needed to research and how that experience went.  
How did you “dig in” to the research process for a real life purpose?
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4. Sequence the Standards
Work in triads to sequence the research standards.
Choose one envelope from your table. Each envelope contains one research standard across grades K-12.
Compare your sequence layout to the K-12 research standards in your Participant Notebooks. Rearrange if necessary.   
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5. The “Story” of the Standard
Next, highlight the nuances in vocabulary that distinguish one grade level from the next (8 min.)
Then create a graphic with markers and 11”x14” paper representing the standard they sequenced and how it evolves in complexity (10 min.)
Finally, share your graphic with other triads at your table.
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6. Final Word Protocol
Presenter shares a response to a prompt on the note-catcher and any additional thinking. (2 min.)
Each participant comments on what was shared (1 min. each)
Presenter gets the Last Word, sharing how his or her thinking evolved after listening to others or re-emphasizing what was originally shared.
Repeat with each additional participant taking the role of presenter.
As a group, debrief content. Discuss how hearing from others impacted your thinking.
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7. Synthesis
This session has informed my thinking by….
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