Population Project

PART A- Humanities Research

Overpopulation Video

Day 1 – Select a Topic

Air Pollution, Malnutrition, Bio-diversity, Migration, Economic Development, Family Planning, Food distribution, Poverty, Food Production, Recycling, Gender Inequality, Child Labor, Sanitation, Green Revolution, Sustainable Development, HIV/AIDS, Transportation, Trash, Human Trafficking, Tuberculosis, Infant Mortality, Urbanization, Irrigation, Vaccinations, Land distribution, Water Availability, Literacy, Water Pollution, Malaria, Women’s Empowerment.

POP 2017 Packet (Google drive)

POP – Pictures

Citing Sources – How are your going to collect and organize your information?

Resources

Books – Resource Lists on Destiny and Trolleys
Databases
- Britannica School
- NewsBank
Newspapers/Internet

Day 2 – Exploring for Focus

Review POP packet and GI Timeline

Mind Mapping example
Resources
- Books
- Databases
  - EBSCO Academic Search Complete
  - Questia School
Paraphrasing Examples
Quote/Paraphrase/Summarize

Day 3 – Continue to Form a Focus (Selecting one path from many) and Develop Research Question

Research Paper Format– Problem Paper or Initiative Paper?
Review POP packet and GI Timeline
Continue to research using all resources available

Day 4 – Continue to Develop Research Question

Day 5 – Focusing on Finalizing Research

Make sure your have accessed all the resources available to you:

Books

Databases: Britannica, Ebsco, Newsbank, Questia.

Google Custom Search (Indian Newspapers) and UN & NGO’s.

WWW – use the CARS method to check for credibility, accuracy, reasonableness and support.