When assigning the role of a researcher to a student within the class I can see some difficulties could be students not wanting to take on that responsibility for all the others within the class. I can see some students wanting to do research on a specific topic but after looking up information I can see students wanting to copy what they have read from the web instead of learning the content. I can also Imagin students having a challenging time finding reliable web sources to read and work from.
Some benefits that I feel would work for my students would be the inspiration of wanting to do research on a topic to help others in their class. I know most students want to be involved in work that has a meaning and purpose behind it. Many students like to learn new things and are more willingly wanting to participate in the class when they feel the importance of learning the content to help others and to learn something new that they can go back and explain to someone else.
What if you had to design an assessment item in your content area where your students would have access to the web while they take the test? What would that assessment item look like?
So, I would start out by creating a power point for my students to look back on and review with different resources on this PowerPoint so the students can click on the links, and it pulls up the web pages for students to learn from I would give stories from the web site called epic with each topic and let them choose how they want to learn and how they want to present the information.
Example:
Some things that I would want students to include while learning about the climate they had to choose would be.
What kind of animals live in that climate.
Desert- 
continental climate- Deer, Squirrel
These are all just examples of the different types of animals that live in that climate.
But this would take research not just memorization.
2. How hot does this climate get in the summer, winter, fall, and spring? Does it ever stay the same though out the year?
3. what kind of water supplies are in this climate?
4. What kind of plants survive in this climate?
5. what does the population look like in this climate that you have chosen?
6. can you live in this climate?
7. What kind of challenges do you think you would face if you lived in this climate?
8. what kind of food grows in this climate?
9. what is one new fact that you have learned from your research?
How would the question have to differ from one based on memorization? The questions have to be based on research. Such as population, plant life, animals, temperature, and what kind of food grows in this climate. These are all questions that involve research behind the answers. There is not just one answer to really any of these questions and these answers would take time to look up and really think about each answer.
Students can either create a poster about what they had learned while presenting the information.
Students can create a power point about what they had learned and present the information.
or
Students can create a Shoebox craft of the climate for others to see and present the information that they had learned.
Another way this project can be done is by choosing a climate for each group of students and assigning a student to one of the questions within a group, so each student is responsible for a part of the research for the assignment. So, then this becomes a whole group project where students have to work together and collaborate with each other to get the project completed and create information so the students can learn from the research that had been done by each other.
Examples of websites to visit each one would have at least two resources if not more so students can have many different options to learn about each question.
Animals Found in the Humid Continental | Sciencing
World Climates | CK-12 Foundation (ck12.org)
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