For Hanks 'research paper' we did a lot of reading and watching you tube videos.  He had to choose the things he thought were most important then write his own sentences about them.  Then he had to decide what went together to make paragraphs. He typed the paper himself and posted it to his blog all by himself.  I was going to get his sister to help. 
Last night after he posted to his blog he found a website that told him all the Thomas and Friends character names in Hawaiian.