ELA10 Teen Social Issues Research: Home

You will research a teen social issue. You will research background information and the impacts on teens about the social issue. Your goal is bringing awareness to the issue and persuading others not to participate. Ultimately, you will create a synthesis paper that contains your researched information plus connections you can make to this issue (more on this later!). We will use both databases and websites for our research.

Your completed notecards are due:

• Odd Classes: end of class, Wednesday, 10/22
• Even Classes: end of class, Thursday, 10/23

**You won't turn any notecards into Canvas. You will share your NoodleTools project with your teacher, and this is how you will "turn in" the notecards.**

Choose a topic to research from the following list:

• Research Topic List

  Log in to Noodletools using Classlink.

If you haven't logged in to Noodletools yet this year, you need to add it to your Classlink:

1. Click + at the top of Classlink.
2. Search the app library for Noodletools.
3. Click "Add."
4. Now you can access NoodleTools through Classlink.

Make sure all sources are entered into Noodletools!

For this project, you must use two sources of information:

• one database source
• one website

You are finding two sources on your topic:

• one that provides background information on the topic > define/explain topic
• one that provides information on the effects on the teen body/brain/relationships > How is a teen impacted by this topic?

You will use create two notecards in Noodletools:

• one notecard per source

Given the topics that you are researching, you must evaluate your web sources to ensure they are legitimate and providing credible information. Use this checklist to help you out. Still struggling to decide if you have chosen a good source? Ask a librarian for help.