Youtube

Souce: https://i.ytimg.com

• KEY ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES I’M ADDRESSING:  
• OVERALL RESEARCH QUESTION: How is YouTube a plausible job?
• SUB QUESTIONS
• What is YouTube and how has it grown?
• What is YouTube mainly used for?
• With YouTube as a person’s income, how much do they make?
• How does YouTube relate to the business world
• RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH:
• DATABASES: Student Resources in Context
• WEBSITES:
• https://gigaom.com/2009/07/28/34-ways-to-use-youtube-for-business/
• http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display-query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=&u=hins30136&currPage=&disableHighlighting=true&displayGroups=&sortBy=&source=&search_within_results=&p=SUIC&action=e&catId=VRBJZU288424390&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CGLTTBC369412473

https://www.business.qld.gov.au/business/running/marketing/online-marketing/using-youtube-to-market-your-business

Caity Tirakian Blog Post #1 "Parents Living Vicariously Through Their Children"

PP#1 

Caity Tirakian  Period-1 

Title: Parents Living Vicariously Through Their Children

Research Question: How much parental involvement is too much? Is being a helicopter parent beneficial to the child?

Databases:

• Proquest
• Student Resources in Context 

Sub Questions: Is one type of parenting is the best? How do parents living vicariously through their children impact the child? Should parents put matters into their own hands? Does doing things for your child help them in the long run? Are their ways to stop this type of parenting?

Image Source: www.someecards.com 

Deforestation

Deforestation

By: Jenni Gibbs 

• TITLE: Deforestation and the Economy  
• KEY ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES I’M ADDRESSING:
• All choices have an opportunity cost
• People respond to incentives in predictable ways
• Institutions are the "rules of the game" that influence choices

• OVERALL RESEARCH QUESTION: What are the economic effects of deforestation?

• SUB QUESTIONS
• What is deforestation?
• Why are people cutting down so many trees?
• How is it affecting the environment?
• Where is is most common to see deforestation?

• RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH:
• DATABASES: National geographic, World Geography, Scientific American
• WEBSITES: OxfordJournals.org, AmericanMeteorologicalSocietyJournal.org

The Resurgence of Vinyl

http://www.wileyroots.com

Overall Research Question

•       Why is there a resurgence of vinyl decades after it became "obsolete"?

Sub-Questions

• What is the difference between vinyl and other forms of music?
• Why are people willing to pay more for vinyl when it is less convenient?
• How has the death of vinyl affected the quality of modern music?
• Will vinyl be back to stay? Or is it a passing phase?

Potential Research Websites

• http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/
• http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/06/why-millennials-are-buying-more-vinyl-records.html
• http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/arts/music/vinyl-records-are-making-a-comeback.html?_r=0

Economic Concepts

• All choices have an opportunity cost.
• People respond to incentives in predictable ways.

Emmett Ferguson

Horse care

https://img0.etsystatic.com

Overall research question: 

• How does owning a horse affect a middle class family?

Sub questions: 

• Does it maximize someone’s utility?

• What are the components of horse care?

• How much do you spend a year on the up keep for a horse?
• How long does a horse live for?

Databases: Proquest.com Encyclopedia britannica

Websites: dogpile.com google.com wikipedia.com

Government Withholding Information from Public

• 

  Source: https://cdn.clearancejobs.com

  KEY ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES I’M ADDRESSING:
• OVERALL RESEARCH QUESTION: To what extent does the government keep information from the general public?  
• SUB QUESTIONS
• Should citizens have the right to all information regardless of the gruesome or paranormal nature of it?
• What factors of a file causes it to be labeled as classified information?
• How can and/or does the government justify withholding information from the public?
• RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH:
• DATABASES: Gale student resources in context, ProQuest
• WEBSITES:  "http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4837061"
• "http://www.debate.org/opinions/does-the-government-have-the-right-to-keep-classified-information-a-secret”"http://www.gastongazette.com/article/20130111/Opinion/301119853"

How much do we know about the moon? What's the cost of exploring the moon?

• KEY ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES I’M ADDRESSING: Because of scarcity, people choose, All choices have an opportunity cost
• OVERALL RESEARCH QUESTION: How much the government should spend on exploring the universe
• SUB QUESTIONS
• How can we know that, the earth revolves around the sun? Is the sun, center of our solar system?  
• How our planet moves through space?
• What kind of planet is the earth?
•  Moon explorations?
• Missions on the moon?
• RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH:
• DATABASES:
• WEBSITES: "http://natgeo.galegroup.com/natgeo/archive?p=NGMA&u=hins30136" and "http://worldgeography.abc-clio.com/Authentication/PickCustomer?returnAction=%2f&webSiteCode=SLN_WGEO&returnToPage=%2fAuthentication%2fPickCustomer%3freturnAction%3d%252f&token=BE42C0CD
  

  

  https://upload.wikimedia.org

Outer Space

PASSION PROJECT PLANNING & BLOG POSTS DRAFTS

BLOG POST #1

1. This was already written in Google Classroom under “Selecting a Passion Project Topic”
2. Add the resources (databases, books, etc) that were suggested as a comment to your post on Google Classroom
3. Review the sample blog post below)

4. Use the template below to organize your blog post:

• TITLE: The Cosmos
• KEY ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES I’M ADDRESSING:
• Scarcity, people choose.
• All choices have an opportunity cost.
• OVERALL RESEARCH QUESTION: Why don’t we focus more on outer space?
• SUB QUESTIONS
• What are we doing in space right now?
• What are the pros and cons of space exploration?
• How does the government regulate it?
• What future plans do we have for outer space?
• RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH:
• DATABASES:
• ProQuest
• Gale Resources in Context
• WEBSITES:
• www.nasa.gov
• www.debate.org
• www.forbes.com

Professional Athletes and Bad Decisions

Source: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com

• KEY ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES I’M ADDRESSING:  

-People Respond to Incentives in Predictable Ways

-All Choices Have an Opportunity Cost

• OVERALL RESEARCH QUESTION:  Why do professional athletes make such bad decisions?
• SUB QUESTIONS
• What professional athletes make these bad decisions?
• Do they think they are making good decisions?
• Is it the stressfulness of the sport that makes them make bad decisions?
• Does having a lot of money, and not a full education, result in the bad decisions?
• How can teams help these athletes to calm them down?
• RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH:
• DATABASES: ProQuest, Opposing Viewpoints, etc.
• WEBSITES: ESPN, Bleacherreport, NFL, NBA, etc
• OTHER (OPTIONAL): None

School Related Stress

http://www.healthaim.com

BLOG POST #1

• TITLE:  Stress in relation to school
• KEY ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES I’M ADDRESSING:
• 3) people respond to incentives in predictable ways
• 5) institutions are the rules of the game that influence choices
• OVERALL RESEARCH QUESTION: How does school affect students stress and mental health?
• SUB QUESTIONS
• What is the best way to study for a test and is it worth cramming late at night?
• Is it better to take a heavy workload through school and stress over it?
• How does participating in sports on top of school contribute to stress?
• What does dealing with so much stress do to a person?
• Why do we get stressed in general?
• RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH:
• DATABASES: rosen teen health and wellness, proquest
• WEBSITES: www.netdoctor.co.uk/healthy-living/wellbeing/.../why-do-we-get-stresse...
• http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/12/02/246599742/school-stress-takes-a-toll-on-health-teens-and-parents-say
• http://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/how-stress-affects-your-child/

Sleep Deprivation and its Economic and Physical Impacts

http://valleysleepcenter.com

• KEY ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES I’M ADDRESSING: Because of scarcity, people choose. All choices have an opportunity cost.
• OVERALL RESEARCH QUESTION: Is sleep deprivation becoming more common, and how does it affect people's ability to work?
• SUB QUESTIONS
• What is causing it to become more common?
• Is it related to increased levels of stress in work/school?
• What are the health impacts of sleep deprivation, both in the long term and the short-term?
• How does it affect productivity?
• Should school schedules be changed to reduce sleep deprivation among students?
• RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH:
• DATABASES: Gale National Geographic Virtual Library, Gale Rosen's Teen Health and Wellness.