Moving from Our Mindmaps to More Focused Topics with Question Lenses and Musical Peer Review

In my last post that is part of this series, I shared how we used mindmapping after our second round of pre-searching to begin honing in our a more specific topic for our research.

After students shared out their mindmaps and big ideas, we asked them to look at their topic through different question “lenses” using an activity shared with me by my colleague Heather Hersey, a school librarian in Seattle. Heather, who adapted her version of the handout fromAn Educator’s Guide to Information Liter...