possible topics...

1. Identify the issue or problem that you plan to focus on in your research project.
There are many additives and preservatives added to food to keep it fresh. Are those good things to put into our bodies?
2. What is your personal connection to and interest in this topic?
I've just always wondered how healthy it is to eat food that can sit on the shelf for a year without going bad.
3. What opinions do you already hold about this topic?
I'm pretty sure a lot of preservatives are really bad for the body, but I don't know which ones or how bad they are.
4. What knowledge do you already have about this topic?
Mostly just my assumptions...
5. What are your main questions about this topic? What are you most curious about?
How do preservatives affect our bodies? I'm really curious about aspartame(found in diet sodas and other sugar free drinks) in particular just because I've heard bad things about it.
6. Within what scholarly discipline (such as history, biology, psychology) do you expect to do most of your research? How does this discipline approach or study this topic?
I'm expecting to do most of my research in the consumer sciences.
7. How could you research this topic outside the library (for example, through interviews
and/or observations)?
I could do a survey of people who drink diet soda and see if they complain of anything out of the ordinary (I know someone who gets intense migraine headaches from diet soda)
Focus:
-I think that a lot of preservatives are not healthy and are used too much without examining the side effects. My questions are- How much do these preservatives and additives affect us? What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of going organic?

1. Identify the issue or problem that you plan to focus on in your research project.
There are a lot of chemicals in household cleaning products and disinfectants that may affect the development of children's immune systems.
2. What is your personal connection to and interest in this topic?
I have two baby cousins that I babysit for all the time, and I just wonder about how beneficial these cleaning products are.
3. What opinions do you already hold about this topic?
I think that children who are never exposed to germs are not going to develop a strong immune system based on things I've read and heard...I could be wrong-we'll see.
4. What knowledge do you already have about this topic?
I've heard that products which kill 99.9% of bacteria are actually very bad because they allow the strongest .1% of bacteria to reproduce and create even stronger bacteria-super bugs.
5. What are your main questions about this topic? What are you most curious about?
How beneficial are disinfectants? How do the affect the development of the immune system?
6. Within what scholarly discipline (such as history, biology, psychology) do you expect to do most of your research? How does this discipline approach or study this topic?
I expect to do most of my research in the sciences.
7. How could you research this topic outside the library (for example, through interviews
and/or observations)?
Focus:
How do household cleaning products affect the development of immune systems in children and/or adults? Are the chemicals and disinfectants helping, or are they bad for our health?