The students of Mrs. Porter's Advanced English class researched swarm intelligence because this topic was discussed in their last short story, "Hallucination". Their goal was to find out what insects and other animals show this type of intelligence and what complex behaviors they perform. With the information that they gathered, they made a poster showing what they had learned about swarm intelligence. The students also wrote a minimum of three paragraphs explaining their findings and also created a works cited page.
The students also selected from one of the two essential questions to guide them with their research. Question 1: How could studying swarm intelligence help humans solve real-world problems? or Question 2: Why are computer scientists interested in the idea of swarm intelligence? To get inspired before they started their research, they listened to the Canonsburg Middle School Band's performance of a song called "Swarm Theory".
