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STEP 8: Developing the product

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At this point, students have the factual raw material to build knowledge relative to the original essential question. In the final two steps, students must integrate the information they have found into a fresh insight. They then must represent that insight by developing some product that represents their knowledge about the essential question.

The product can have many forms. We strongly suggest that teachers consider a WebEssay, an online document that represents their answer. We believe that students can not only be users or consumers of the Web, but contributors to it. WebEssays are living documents that contain multiple information types (text, sounds, graphics, movies, etc.) which can then be displayed to a worldwide audience. Students, with the aid of Web editing software, are quite capable of producing very dramatic WebEssay documents with some instruction and aid.

Other more traditional projects, such as essays, presentations, and hypermedia products, can also be used to reflect answers.

 

RESOURCES: Essential Questions

STEP 1: Writing the Essential Question

STEP 2: Writing Foundation Questions

STEP 3: Developing a Search Strategy

STEP 4: Locating Information

STEP 5: Filter, Distill and Cross-Referencing

STEP 6: Evaluate the amount of information

STEP 7: Develop the answer to the Essential Question

STEP 8: Develop a product to represent the answer

 

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