Anyone have any interesting research topics? I need some help...?

Question

I need some help finding a research topic for my HS senior English class. It needs to be "scholarly" research that is able to be examined for about a month and I must induce a change. It can be schoolwide, communitywide, or both. I can survey students and teachers, publicize, as well as go speak to the city leaders about it so its got to be an interesting, important topic.

Answer 1

nowadays, pick of a research that everybody is talking about like global warming, resession, preventing terrorism.

Answer 2

Factory farms. You can find out how many people know where their meat comes from...then try to educate people, and see if they make a change.

Something environmental. Try to get people to join a group to clean up the community.

Animal shelters!! Try to make people more aware of these homeless animals. Cats and dogs usually only have 7 days or less to live after going to the animal shelter. Afterwards you could try to have an adoption day where people are encouraged to come to the shelter. You'd be saving lives.

Answer 3

Select a sub-population of your high school and prepare a survey on that group.  Let's just say you are chose the National Honor Society group.  Prepare a survey on how many of these students plan to attend an in-state versus out-of-state college/university.  How many of the NHS kids plan on the military or workforce instead?    Since  NHS requires community service hours, you can poll the students to find out what kinds of community service they did, and what they got out of their volunteering.  You can  include a questions on their survey about the number of AP courses they have taken.  You can ask them the number of hours per week they spend studying/homework.  

Good luck!

Answer 4

I suggest determining what you're most interested in so that you'll be able to stick with it for a month. If it were me - by way of an example - and I were in my hometown I would look at a recycling program in the high school. I would be able to survey students to see what they thought of it and whether or not they would use it and discuss the feasibility of such an idea with school officials and the town (if necessary). You said it needed to be something that could induce change and such a program would be a workable idea.

For what it's worth I teach college level research writing (and they do their own projects over 11 weeks) and environmental science.