Research Skills - Surveys

Article - types of survey questions

Indian Women & Gender Roles survey

Questionnaire design

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.

Unit 3 - Ethics - Topic 3: Animal testing

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

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.

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?"

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

Presentation skills

Each student will prepare a 10 minute Powerpoint presentation on the project topic. Presentations will be in class on December 10,11,13,17,18,20.

Here is the Powerpoint about presentation skills.