One teacher gave me a great idea about how I group students, especially for group projects, called an "Expert Line". First, you have everyone stand in a line and then tell them to go to one end of the line or the other based on how good they are at the activity you read. You can do this many times and then extend it by having them then take a sheet with all the activities and find an expert of each of the activities to sign that box. You can also create groups that are more balanced by putting different "experts" together so that their skills complement each other.
Her ideas on facilitating student research seemed much more reasonable than what I've been doing up til now. She gives students a number of links to websites that they can use to find information. She sets up an organizer that has some of the sentence starts/categories for the key content she wants them to get notes on, and then another box for facts they find really interesting. This is something to try in the future.
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