Our ultimate purpose as teachers should be to enable students to become autonomous and independent learners.  Teaching children research skills is one of the main steps along that process.  I created this video below for children to help with their ancient Greek research project.  The suggestions covered, however, are relevant for any research project:

1.  Search engines – use age appropriate search engines.

2.  Mind Maps – Collate information in a visual way, to help organise your findings.

3.  Keywords – type into search engines only the keywords.

4.  Analyse – don’t trust everything you read!  Skim and scan to check key indicators for the reliability of information.

5.  Source – cite all the sources you have used for your research.