Mass+Confusion...Massachusetts+Biography+Research


 * Mass Confusion- Making Massachusetts Biography Research Elementary**
 * Westford Public Schools**

Kids in grade 5 researched important figures in Massachusetts and created podcasts with audio and visual elements to share with third graders these were stored on a wiki; Third graders used ipod nanos and laptops to use these as their source materials to create news broadcasts about the different characters

Model of older students creating research materials for younger students has lots of implications in "spiraling" curriculum

Thought there may be more information on an area that does not have a lot of resources.

In Westford the librarian and ITS knowing there was not a lot of resources helped 5th grade students create podcasts as a resource for the 3rd graders on this subject. Now they have plenty of resources for this project.