Formulating Research Questions with Birds of Feather Collaboration and Writable Surfaces

We’ve been partnering with Language Arts teacher Sean O’Connor the last few weeks as his students have been engaged in presearch around topics that students identified and developed aroundmotifs and themes of To Kill a Mockingbird. After participating in the reading frenzy activity, students left with a topic of interest that they wanted to explore further and refine through presearch. After several days of gathering information and sources to build background knowledge, the students were re...