| Research Course |
David Lee, Gifted Education Specialist |
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Burleigh Manor Middle School is pleased to offer a one-semester research course to incoming 6th grade students. Students who are eligible to participate in this course will be those students who qualified for, and elect to participate in, three or four GT classes: math, English, science, and social studies.
This course is offered to those students with an interest in research who are looking for a greater challenge in the academic arena. The curriculum in this course will be rigorous and will enable and encourage advanced-level learners to conduct their own research. The process will expose the students to methodologies for conducting descriptive, historical, correlational, and experimental research. Then, after the course is complete, they will work independently to apply research skills learned during the first semester to an original investigation of their own during the second semester. Students report their progress weekly to me through email, but the class itself does not meet during the second semester.
Students will share their research projects at the Enrichment Fair in May.
Class Subject:
1) The essentials of research
2) Secondary source research
3) Primary source research
4) Putting research into action
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Mr. Lee
Grade 6
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| This curriculum provides students with the opportunity for inquiry into a discipline and requires them to go beyond synthesizing the contributions of others to create new knowledge. |
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Ancient Babylonia
Using tools of the historian, students will research primary source documents and artifacts to discover how trade brought changes to the economy and culture of ancient Babylonia, where natural resources were scarce but agricultural goods were in surplus.
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Schoolwide Enrichment Fair
Please check for notices about the Enrichment Fair date and time during the month of May.
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Students in the 6th Grade Research Course will successfully practice and master concepts they will use to guide them through their own individual research projects. Students will work on their own during quarters three and four to complete their independent research projects. These projects will be placed on display at the Schoolwide Enrichment Fair in May.
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