Tuesday 7 May 2013

Scientific Research Skills - Final Assignment

Your final exam will be in the form of a Powerpoint presentation, 5-10 minutes long, based on the results of your survey.

Your presentation should include the following:

  • Introduction - the topic of your survey, why you chose this topic, how many people did you survey, how did you choose your sample.
  • One slide per question - include the question that you asked, and a graph of the results (if appropriate).
  • Your graphs should all be a different style (column, pie, percentages, 2D/3D, colors etc)
While presenting, as well as showing your results you should try to highlight anything interesting or unusual that you found.

Thursday 18 April 2013

Animal testing assignment

Are you FOR or AGAINST animal testing in scientific research?

Back up your arguments with referenced scientific facts.

Paper should be written in APA style using the correct style of references, paraphrasing and formatting.

2 pages double spaced.

Use APA style for references.

Due May 6th.

Wednesday 3 April 2013

Unit 3 - Ethics - Topic 3: Animal testing

http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/schoolzone/rights_and_wrongs/

Tuesday 5 March 2013

Climate change assignment

"What should the USA do to help combat climate change?"

Discuss the following in your essay:

  • Kyoto protocol
  • Government policies
  • Individual responsibilities and whether/how they should be enforced

Paper should be written in APA style using the correct style of references, paraphrasing and formatting.

3 pages long.

Due April 2nd.

Sunday 13 January 2013

Stem cell funding debate

Here is the PBS Newshour report on stem cell funding: Obama Lifts Restrictions on Funding Human Stem Cell Research

The topic of the debate will be "Should federal money be used to fund research on embryonic stem cells?"


Sunday 6 January 2013

Unit 3 - Ethics - Topic 1: Embryonic Stem Cells

HERE is the link to the National Institutes of Health website that we will be using for background reading.

Here are the 2 videos we watched:
http://video.pbs.org/video/1506726820/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/stem-cells-update.html