Researchers

**Researchers:**

 * What?**
 * A student is assigned the job of finding answers to all classroom questions as they arise (students and teachers) by searching available resources.


 * How do students contribute to learning community?**
 * gain immediate information/answers
 * gain experience for how to find answers independently
 * learn how to weed out inaccurate/biased information
 * creates a collection of information that's relevant to the classroom
 * student ownership
 * authentic teachable moments
 * build your own search engine using Google's Custom Search Engine creator ([|www.google.com/ccop/cse/])


 * List of ways to implement this in your current classroom:**
 * becomes a rotating classroom job
 * teach students what is a reliable source (not appropriate at the elementary level)
 * have a way to share results with entire class
 * how to complete an efficient search- use of key words
 * can be very useful for inquiry-based learning
 * make it a two person job...a research team
 * identify the search team...put a byline on your data (names of kids who did the researching)
 * record answer to inquiry in their notebooks/vocabulary