Thing 16: Assignment Calculator & Research Project Calculator

I can see how the Assignment Calculator and Research Project Calculator can be a great benefit to middle school students and older. The calculators do a good job of breaking the research process down into steps, and provides many useful links to websites that can aid the research process. I thought the supporting materials in the teacher guide were useful, and could easily be reproduced for students. However, I work with elementary students, and think the Assignment Calculator and Research Project Calculator are too advanced for them. It would be good to have a research calulator more geared toward younger students that could help show them how to break down the research process into simple steps.