College Research Project Unit

This is an excellent unit on college research. If your school is college focused or you just need a interested based project to get the students engaged, this is a great way to get kids interested in colleges and their stats. Did you know that the federal government compiles all the FAFSA data? It keeps track of how much money each person who filled out a FAFSA makes over the long term (10 years+). There is a wealth of data on every college that has ever accepted federal funding and it is all at your fingertips. This is my College Research Project Unit. The College Research Project Unit can take a little over a month. It gets kids interested in college stats but then it has students choose a college to go in-depth on and look at the costs, benefits, majors, and so much more. The College Research Project Unit has students researching a college, writing an essay and doing a presentation on their chosen college. The unit comes with rubrics for easy presentation grading, outlines for research and essay writing and worksheets to scaffold the process, along with directions to walk you through every step of the way. The final presentation is a great summative grade and the rubric makes it so you are almost completely done grading by the time the student is done presenting.