Research Groups

Research groups were an expedient method of information gathering on a broad range of topics: Native People, settlement of the community and the future. In the information gathering stage, groups were able to utilize information from the work previous students had published in the history segment of our school web-pages. Students, as researchers began to gain an appreciation for the greater history of the community of Millarville.

Individual students were receptive to what they could learn from each group's presentation. They were aware that they should be watching and listening for information and recording what they could.

They were also aware that they would be reflecting on their new learning and applying it as they answered their three main questions:

• Who were the people involved?
• What was life like for these people? What were their needs?
• How did this part of Millarville's heritage affect the land?

The class then held discussions about what they had learned in their groups and from the presentations and how this might help them understand, or answer the 3 main questions. The class brainstormed together and discussed their thoughts.

Finally the students were asked to reflect about the historical information they had gathered about their topic and begin to write guided by their 3 main questions.