What factors influence the management of forestry and resource conservation?
Your topic list gives you a huge amount of flexibility and will allow you to research a topic that probes authentic questions.
Step 1: Create your Thesis Statement or Driving Question
What are you curious about? From this curiosity, formulate your thesis statement or driving question. Note: You may need to do a bit preliminary research to create a meaningful thesis statement or driving question.
Check out the student resources HERE
National Geographic
Science Daily
Step 2: RESEARCH!
Where to start?
Here are some things that you need to consider:
- Start your research using Research Data Bases. These are vetted sources e.g. Gale: Canadian Issues in Context, Science in Context, Ebsco Host, Worldbook, Curio.ca
- As you do your research add to your References (this saves you having to go back later and try to find where you got your information from).
- Be sure to add EasyBib to your add-ons in docs.
- The databases will create an APA citation for you.
Note Taking Template
- This will help you to organise your research and think critically about the information you gather.
Avoid Plagiarism! What is paraphrasing? What are direct quotes?
When/if you go to the open internet for resources, be sure to critically evaluate them before taking “information” from them.
Critical Evaluation of Internet Resources –> The CRAAP Test
Mrs. Martin has pulled some books from our collection that are related to this project. Feel free to look through these and sign out any that you feel will support your research.
You can also search Destiny Quest to see what books are specifically related to your chosen topic.
Step 3: Determine what format you will use to send your message.
Mr. Burgess has included a number of suggestions:Topics in Forestry and Natural Resource Conversation
Additional Resources:
Nature of Things: What Trees Talk About (Video)
Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations & Rural Development – Government of BC (Website)
Natural Resources Canada (Website)
T’Sou-Ke First Nations: A leader in the innovative use of renewable energy (Video)
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