Jillian Davies - red

Taylen Downing- green

Kiran McWilliams - blue
Brianna Pires - purple

Primary - first hand account info

- Law
- Policy
- Speech
- interview
Secondary - second hand info
- Oped articles
- Books about env. Laws

Developing strong research questions

● Focused on a single problem or issue
● Researchable using primary and/or secondary sources
● Feasible to answer within the timeframe and practical constraints
● Specific enough to answer thoroughly
● Complex enough to develop the answer over the space of a paper or thesis
● Relevant to your field of study and/or society more broadly

Restricted Narrowed
Broad **Clear, Focused,
Topic Topic
(Potential) and Appropriately
Complex
Topic
Research Question**

Why are these foods

*Banned Foods
Unhealthy Foods in not banned in the U.S.
the U.S. Obesity when they are clearly
not healthy?

How can labor workers

stay injury-free while
*Labor workers Picking fruit/crops After effects on there still doing their job?
body
 How have officials
been able to fix the
COVID Lack of resources Dirty water problem of Americans
without running water?

How should the

Students Not cafeterias change their
*Food Waste School Cafeteria Diet Wanting the School’s menus to be more
“healthy” foods appealing to children
but remain healthy?

How do the toxins

Unhealthy air Pesticides farmers Becoming sick from released in the air
use pesticides when farmers spray
pesticides affect
human health?
How is the production
of organic food bad for
Organic food Environmental Produces more the ecosystems
effects climate pollution around?
And environmental
effects
(greenhouse gas)

If HFCS is so
unhealthy for you,
High Fructose Corn How HFCS affects why is it in so many
Added Sugars and
Syrup your body foods that we
Calories
purchase?