3D: build your project with products that relate to the topic

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Advertisement: Decide how you want to display your item, whether on the internet, in the newspaper, on television or radio, or in a magazine. Draw pictures and give the important details of your object.

Biography: Write a story about a real person's life. Your story should be factual, it must really have happened the way you say. Be sure to include the important things the person has done.

Block picture story: like a funny paper strip, a block picture story contains squares with events happening in each square.

Book cover: using construction paper, design a cover for a book that shows information from your research. You may also use other mediums such as material.

Bread Dough: Use the following recipe to make bread: 1 pkg yeast, 2c warm water, 3 T. sugar or honey, 2 t. salt, 1/4 cup oil, about 7 cups flour. Add the sugar to the warm water and stir. Put the yeast in the sugar water and let it sit for about 5 minutes. Then, pour the liquid in a large bowl and add the oil, flour, and salt a little at a time until you can work the dough with your hands. Knead and form the sculpture on a cookie sheet. Let it rise for about 10-20 minutes. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes, or until golden brown. You can eat this sculpture.

Bulletin board: on a surface, build a bulletin board showing your information. You may choose to use pictures, items, and/or words to convey the facts.

Card: design a greeting card

Center: Build an area for other students to learn about your topic. Make a product that has a qestion for each of the following areas: Knowledge (a fact) Comprehension (Do you understand the fact?) Application (Can the learner apply his/her new knowledge?) Analysis (Take the fact apart and look at all the sides.) Synthesis (With the 'parts' of the fact, make something new.) Evaluation (Judge and rate what you have learned.)

Chart: develop a chart using Word, Wordperfect, or Excel. Be sure to include the parts that explain your research.

Choral reading: a poem spoken aloud by a group. Make your poem original

Cinquain: a special form of poem, has five lines. The first line has one word that is a noun (person, place, or thing) The second line has two words that tell about the first word. The third line has three words that tell about the first word. Line four has two words that tell something else about the first line. Line five is the same as line one.

Collage: a collection of pictures, letters, and other things that give a feeling, idea, or impression. Usually, you paste the items on something, overlapping the things.

Collection with a narrative: see scrap book; usually have labels on all the items, and a narrative is a story about the items, grouping them in some manner.

Collection: see scrap book; usually have labels on all the items

Comic strip: See Block picture story

Costume: design a costume to wear that shows what you have learned about your topic. Costumes do not necessarily have to be from material, you might wish to use paper, old sheets or pillowcases,yarn, etc.

Crosscut diagram: a drawing showing the inside of something as if it had be cut in half.

Crossword puzzle: using words from your research, build a game page with clues about the vocabulary

Debate: 1. Choose a topic that may have more that one viewpoint. 2. Research that topic from all sides. 3. Choose a side to your topic and give a logical, reasonable discussion to a group. You will have a partner who will take the opposite view.

Detailed illustration: a picture that tells all

Diagram: a drawing with labels that explains an item or a process

Diary: a written report detailing events that occur in the day. Also called a journal or log.

Dictionary: a grouping of words with definitions that you learned from your research

Diorama: a three- dimensional scene, usually made inside a container, containing a back-drop.

Display: shows a collection of things

Editorial: an essay that tells your ideas about a certain topic. You are the editor and you give your opinions.

Essay: a written composition, having 5 to as-many-as-you-need paragraphs, that discusses the information you have learned.

Experiment : an outline of materials, steps, observations, and conclusions about a task, usually dealing with science topics

Experiment record (or log): a chart that tells what you've done, what you've seen, and what you've measured on your experiment

Fact File: a collection of information about a topic. You may choose to use index cards for your facts. Place one fact on each card.

Fairy tale: a short story that usually has a moral, with fictional characters, wild events that could never take place, and some magic of one kind or another

Famous Cards: Make your own cards, like baseball cards, that give statistics and facts

Filmstrip: a strip of film or similar material which tells a story in a sequence.

Flip book: Draw a character on one sheet. On the next sheet, draw the same picture but make slight changes. Continue drawings on different sheets until you have the character finish the job. Next, put the sheets in order and thumb through them to make it seem as if the character is really moving.

Game: can be a board game, an action game, or anything that conveys the information you have researched.

Geodesics: building forms. Try using toothpicks and small pieces of orange or lemon peel. Stick the toothpicks in the smallest possible piece of peel and build your form. The peel will shrink when it dries and hold you form together.

Glossary: something like a dictionary but just contains the words that are in the story

Haiku: a Japanese form of poetry, Haiku is written about a feeling. Its form in three lines, the first has five syllables, the second seven syllables, and the last line has five syllables again.

Illustrated story: story with pictures

Inedible Bread Dough Recipe: 6 slices of fresh white bread, 6 teaspoons white glue like Elmer's, 1/2 teaspoon of liquid detergent. Remove crusts from the bread. Crumble the bread into a bowl. Add the glue and detergent. Stir for a few seconds, then knead it with your hands. It will be sticky at first. When the dough forms a ball and no longer sticks, it's ready to mold. Roll out with a smooth bottle and/or make the shape you wish. Let the project dry on wax paper. NOT EDIBLE

Jigsaw Puzzle: Draw a picture or design. Paste the picture on a piece of heavy tagboard or cardboard. Cut the pattern into pieces that may be taken apart and put back together.

Journal: see diary

Letter to the editor: Pick a topic about which you feel strongly. Write a letter addressing it the the editor of your local newspaper expressing these thoughts.

Letters: write a letter of some form; friendly, business, or other, giving the information you have learned.

Limerick: a funny verse of five lines, in which the first and second lines rhyme with the fifth line, and the shorter third line rhymes with the shorter fourth line.

Log: see diary

Logic puzzle: a puzzle that must be worked out using clues. Make a grid, write clues, find an example of a logic puzzle and follow its format.

Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something that does not relate at all but suggests a likeness-- example: a bird slices through the air.

Mobile: Hang pictures or items from something rigid like a coat hanger or heavy wire. Make your project mean something with the items you choose to display.

Model: usually miniature in size, shows the main idea of your topic

Movie: using a video camera, record your information. Could be in the form of a television report or a commercial

Mural: a picture painted on a wall, or a large sheet of paper

Museum: a building or place for keeping collections and exhibits

News Report: See Newspaper story. Using the same format, write a story and then tape it for television. Most articles on the news last less than 5 minutes.

Newspaper story: Write a story about an event or topic. You must remember to answer the following questions: who, did what, when, where, and how it happened.

Origami: fold paper to make different objects, making them relate to your research.

Pamphlet: research your topic, finding important facts and pictures. Place those items on a sheet of paper, using columns and titiles.

Pattern: a pattern may be made of tissue paper or butcher paper. It is the outline of an object that follows your research. If you want something more that cutting done, please give additional directions.

Peek a boo show: build a scene in a closed box. Cut a hole large enough for viewing in one end. For additional light cut a square in the top of the box and cover it with tissue paper.

Photo Essay: a group of pictures that tell a story. Be sure you have a beginning, middle, and end.

Picture dictionary: a dictionary of terms using pictures to define those terms.

Poem: a special way of saying your message. Sometimes poems rhyme at the end of each line, and sometimes not. They may have a special structure called a meter or be what is called blank verse. It should tell a story or form a feeling about something.

Poster: plan your information well and place it on a piece of poster board.

Puppet: can be a stick puppet, finger puppet, marionette, hand puppet. Should have a play that goes with the puppet character.

Rebus story: A rebus story tells a story using pictures for some of the nouns and verbs. Be sure your story has a beginning, middle, and end and shows the setting, characters, rising action, climax, and conclusion.

Reports: may be oral or written or both. Tells the information you have discovered.

Rubbing: a rubbing is a copy of something that has a raised surface. Place a sheet of thin paper over the surface and using a crayon or pencil or charcoal, gently rub until the picture becomes apparent.

Scavenger hunt: a list of things to be found by a group of people placed in teams. Could be physical items to find or information on the internet.

Science Fiction Story: a story that has a foundation in something scientific. It could be about space, nature, machines, something unknown. It uses these facts and your WILD imagination to build a special story

Scrap book: collection of things that mean something to the person. Usually has a theme.

Seek and Find: a word puzzle using vocabulary from your research that looks like a table with small boxes. Put your vocabulary words, one letter to a box, on the table first, then fill in the rest of the boxes with other letters. The player tries to find the hidden words.

Silhouette: Use a bright light to cast a shadow onto a dark piece of paper. Trace around the outline and then cut out the shape.

Silkscreening: when you make ink go through a screen of fine fabric that has been stretched over a frame onto a piece of paper. You can paint stencils on the screens with a special liquid, or cut them from a stencil. That makes the ink go through in certain places a form a picture.

Skit: a short play about a topic involving one or two characters. You may choose to have scenery and costumes or not.

Soap carving: WITH YOUR PARENT'S HELP, carve out a bar of soap to represent your topic. Use a soft soap

Song book: a group of songs that have a special reason for being placed together. You may have songs you have written or some songs that are already written. (Be sure you put the composer's name under the title.)

Song: write an original tune (melody) with original words.

Stained Glass: Draw your form on a sheet of construction paper. Cut out some of the areas, leaving about 1/2 inch edge along the openings. Place colored tissue paper over the openings and glue the edges of the tissue to the 1/2 inch edge. Hang on a window so the sun can shine through the tissues. You may also, with the help of an adult, choose to draw/paint on a piece of glass. Please use all necessary safety steps when dealing with glass.

Stencil: a stencil is a thin piece of cardboard or plastic with shapes cut out. You can reproduce a shape many times from a stencil. Use the shape(s) your stencil produces to build a new product.

Stitchery: can be done on just about anything. You may need a frame or hoop to hold it in place, a picture to copy, and yarns and tapestry needles. There are many different stitches to use. Find a book and practice several that will fit your project. You might also try a group mural made of many different projects. Ask parents/grandparents for ideas. Get them to show you how they made things.

Story: write about your findings, being sure to include a topic sentence, details, elaboration, and a conclusion

Survey: A survey asks questions to a group of people, looks at the results and wirtes a report. The report can be in any shape. Please see me with your ideas before you begin.

Tape recording: use a tape recorder to record your information. You could pretend to be a radio report or a tourist taking notes.

Terrarium: a terrarium, like an aquarium, is a contain that holds things except it has soil and small plants.

Textbook: write a book about your topic, remembering that a textbook has chapters about different topics with questions and activities at the end of each chapter.

Time line: time lines show how time passes. You will have a beginning (start) and an end (finish) with lots of different things happening inbetween. You may choose to make your time line on paper like a chart, or you may choose to have it 3D using solid objects to show important parts.

Transparency: a sheet of acetate that allows you to write on it and with a projector, you can place the written material on the wall or screen

Travelogue: a description of a journey, usually with slides, film, or pictures

TV Game Show: Write questions and answers dealing with your topic. Decide on any rules for the game. Have a panel of contestants try to answer your questions. You may wish to tape the show.

TV news report: become a reporter for a local television station. Be sure you cover the who, did what, when, where, how, and why parts to your story.

Vocabulary list: make a list of vocabulary words and their definitions from your readings.

Worksheet: you may wish to make a worksheet that goes with your research. It should ask questions about what you've found in your research. Worksheets can have true/false, multiple choice, fill in the blank, or discussion questions; or they can give directions for making a new item.