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.

Plagiarism checker

HERE is the plagiarism checker we looked at in class, where you can upload your essay to check whether you have inadvertently plagiarised or forgotten to reference something. It's not foolproof but it's quite useful anyway.

Referencing & the APA style

You'll need these resources for today's class:

Paraphrasing Guide
Plagiarism Quiz
When to Cite Quiz

Here's a copy of the packet in case you lose it: Referencing and APA style packet
(HERE is the original version with more information about how to format different types of sources) .

HERE is a useful link about the APA style, including the formatting you should use for your report (line spacing, font size etc)

Fall project

You can re-download the project guidelines HERE and extra copies of the website evaluation checklist HERE.