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I am doing something similar with grade 3 (year 4). They are going to be doing research on climate change. They started in class with the teachers working on questions. What makes an open ended question, what isn’t open ended. They next had a session in which the following took place:
This activity was about 30 minutes at which point we stopped.
In the next session, students will do the following:
At the end of the session, students will have a research question to start their investigation.
Admittedly students will not necessarily have developed the questions we might have wanted them to explore. However, they will be invested in what interests them on the topic. This project is very fluid at the moment since I have never worked with this age group, being a secondary teacher-librarian, and the teachers have never worked on developing research skills with this age group. For example, I can see us assisting students as they start their research to rework their questions as they learn more about the topic.
This unit will also introduce students to information literacy skills such as note taking. Our art teacher will be developing sketchnoting with the classes and the teachers will be working on identifying key information in texts so that students are able to start to summarize rather than to write full sentences in their notes.