[LM_NET] Creative Drug Research Project

["Beaman, Anita L" <albeam2@ILSTU.EDU>]

I'm meeting tomorrow with our health teachers to plan a research
assignment on drugs.  The students will be working in groups of 4, and
so they want the research to have 4 different focus areas or distinct
roles, one for each student in the group.

 

The kids will be doing presentations (no papers) and we're looking for
creative approaches to this - how can we create an assignment that
requires some critical thinking and that's difficult to plagiarize?

 

I'm thinking along the lines of presenting in the voice of a drug user
or the drug itself, or creating a dramatic interpretation  related to
the drug.  One of the teachers is kind of old school, however, so I'll
need to sell him on the idea.  

 

Has anyone done a successful assignment like this?  Can you share?  If I
have some success stories, it might help me out!

 

Thanks!

Anita

 

Anita Beaman, Librarian

University High School

Illinois State University

Normal, IL

albeam2@ilstu.edu

 


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