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The Research Table

A card-table activity for teaching research writing. Students draw cards to draft a research introduction, then read real open-access studies and guess their research questions. Set it up for your class and download one HTML file to share. Try the student version →

STEP 1Set up the two activities: the decks students draw from and the articles they read. It works as is, too.

STEP 2Preview exactly what students will see, and play a hand yourself.

STEP 3Download one HTML file to post in your learning platform, Teams, or email. No account or internet needed.

Activity

Articles for activity 2

How it works

Activity 1 · Write an Intro. Teams draw an education level and a topic, then write a hook, background, problem and purpose, using your examples as models.
Activity 2 · Guess the Research Questions. Teams pick an article, read its abstract and the passage leading up to its research questions, write their guess, and flip a card to reveal the real questions.
Both activities end with a payout ticket image students can download or print to submit.
Your setup saves automatically in this browser. To edit a finished activity later, choose Open an activity and select its downloaded file.

Starter articles are real open-access studies reproduced under CC BY 4.0, with the citation, link and license shown to students.

Everything you enter is built into the file you download, so only use material you have the right to share.