Climate change affects all areas of a child’s life. This project gives you an opportunity to use your creativity and to practice problem-based research to address these challenges. In this project, you will work in a group and focus on one aspect of climate change, children, and problem solving. At the end of the semester you will present your work to the class.
Activities:
1. Professor Knowles-Yanez will collaborate with you to form groups and assign topics.
2. With your group, formulate a problem-based research question focused on your topic and children, youth, or adolescents. (See on Cougar Courses “George Washington University: How to Write a Research Question”).
3. Strategize with your group about the climate change “product” you will produce. Please refer to Professor Knowles-Yanez's assignment guidelines in Cougar Courses for the list of possible products.
4. Prepare a project proposal.
5. Conduct a literature review in academic and popular literature (See on Cougar Courses “Rutger’s List of Scholarly Journals, and also consider interviewing experts).
6. Create your product.
7. Write a scholarly paper on your problem-based research question and product.