There is nothing more exciting than to hear kids talk with each other about the things that they are learning. I LOVE to listen to these conversations and the best way to get these conversations going is to start research. I used the books that came with our Social Studies curriculum and I let them choose who they wanted to research. It's a win-win because I believe there is power in choice . I choose the list and they choose their person.;) We started this project by discussing the the things that I expected them to find out about their person. As a whole group lesson we completed the same research information on another person that was not on the list. This way I could model each day what I expected from the students. We used websites that are available through our school library and KidRex . This is a great site that is safe and easy for the kids to use. I should have started this post about how lapbooks make me sweat...seriously, they can be t