I personally feel that the different components of the research skill should be taken from different exemplary articles and other research products and be accessed by the direct beneficiaries, provide some tasks to stabilize their readings in the respective research components, and lastly scaffolding them to do a full-fledged research and report it on-line with possible informative feedback at each step from your side as a facilitator of the entire process is, of course, commendable.
There is a book called The Craft of Research by Wayne Booth and others. Start there with building lessons. They talk about settling on a topic, moving a topic to a question, finding sources, designing strategies, gathering data, and analyzing it. This is written for students. Don't have students read the whole book and then do research, though. Have them go through a chapter or two at a time and then do a short assignment they can get feedback on. Over time, they will have a whole project.