Springside

I. *Research Beginnings: * *Education in our three wonderful cities - a local investigation*

What do we know? How do we know this? (newspapers? gossip? parents? friends?

What do we want What will we do to find out? to find out? (research? interviews? etc)

I can keep going with the list-thing because I love lists/questions/etc, but I know you get it. If we did this, we'd have a ton of information to work with. We can share our lists and the girls can help each other to generate ideas, to hone the questions for each other, to make suggestions. This could be a small beginning of working together.

information* (...and our girls gather hundreds of amazing, wondrous, well-written and completely accurate facts about education in their respective cities...mmmm) Our girls begin to gather facts using the research methods that each of us helps them to use.
 * II. Research Process: We get to work with the actual gathering of

We could decide on categories for our schools to use; the girls would organize their information accordingly. (We could have gone either one of two directions by this step - gathering information by category at the beginning of the research process OR waiting until this point to have the girls generate possible categories. I tend to favor the latter strategy, giving students that kind of freedom to gather lots and lots of ideas and sort them later.
 * III. Post Research Part I. What shall we do with all this good stuff?*

We share our categories, exploring for similarities, differences, overlap, etc.
 * IV. Collaboration Part I.*

(You know what I mean...)
 * V. Drawing Conclusions, Connecting Seemingly Disparate Ideas. *

Again, as in III, we could have decided, at the beginning, what the final product would be, or we can have the girls figure that out at this point. Now the possibilities for collaboration and technology belongs to them!! (I will want a scotch at this point)
 * VI. Final Product*


 * VII. * *Final Presentation To Our Respective Schools*


 * ...*in some way that is right for each of us.....