Operation Passion Project continued

Grade 4,5,6 students at Riverside are finishing the year with Operation Passion Project. Step one is to decide on an Essential Question. We are using our free reading novels to generate ideas. We all picked our novels because of something that interested us, from here we have to think about questions that we can generate from our book. Some examples were research - how has the swim suit evolved through the years and do the modifications being made make them faster in the races? Another question from Sam was is there a material that we could wear but still be strong enough to make a submarine?

Students will develop their questions- using google forms they will fill out the request to research. Here we will be making sure that what the question is really asking is what we really want to research.

During our research we must use both print and internet. We have to check our sources to make sure that the facts are right. We must keep a bibliography.

Then the last part is to share our information. We can make our presentation any way we want, the only rubric we have is did your presentation answer your essential question? Starting means we are just touching the surface, developing means that we need to dig deeper but have some valuable information, meeting means that we have enough infromation, anwered all the questions: but what we are striving for is exemplary means we have gone over and above the project.


Some skills that we will learn besides researching is how to be a critical friend. We need to be able to constructively give feedback to our friends to help them develop the best project ever.