7th Grade Research

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SCHOOL TOPICS:

• After School Programs
  • Concept to Classroom
• Alternative Education
  • Smithsonian Tween Tribune:  Should All Children Get an Outdoor Education?
• Bullying
  • Teens Against Bullying website
  • Kids Health.org website
• Cell phones
  • Marketwatch:  This is What Happens When You Take Phones Away from Teenagers
  • Family Education:  Cell Phones at School:  Should They Be Allowed?  
• Cheating
  • Edutopia: Why Students Cheat and What to do About It
  • LA Times:  The Focused Student:  Academic Integrity - Cheating at School
• Homework Policy
  • Healthline:  Why Homework is Bad for Students
  • Edutopia:  What's the Right Amount of Homework?
• Nutrition/School Food
  • CBS News: Let's Redo Lunch
  • Palm Beach Post:  One School Lunch Period
• School Hours
  • Smithsonian Tween Tribune:  School Starting Later for Some High School Students
  • NPR: Sleepless No More in Seattle
  • National Sleep Foundation: Later School Start Times
  • Scholastic:  The Pros and Cons of Year-Round School
  • Big Think:  Why Some U.S. School Districts Are Adopting a 4-Day School Week
• Stress Management
  • NBCLearn:  Stress Less: Calming Strategies
  • Edutopia:  Teaching Students How to Deal with Stress
• Uniforms
  • Smithsonian Tween Tribune:  Dress Codes:  Good Thing or Bad Thing?
  • ACLU Northern CA:  Know Your Rights:  School Dress Codes and Uniforms

SCREENS:

• Advertising
  • Time.com:  How Teens Actually Feel About Advertising on Social Media
  • Smithsonian Tween Tribune:  Are Consumers Ready for Augmented Reality?
• Internet
  • Pew Research Center:  Teens, Social Media & Technology 2018
  • The Atlantic:  Why Millions of Teens Can't Finish Their Homework
• Screen Time
  • Smithsonian Tween Tribune:  Why U.S. Classrooms are starting to resemble arcades
  • Smithsonian Tween Tribune:  How Much Time Do You Spend Online?
• Social Media
  • NBC Learn:  Does Social Media Affect Teens' Self Esteem?
  • National Center for Health Research:  Social Media and Mental Health
• Video Games
  • The Jakarta Times:  Screen Time for Kids: The Pros and Cons of Video Games
  • Forbes:  New Study Shows that There is No Link Between Violent Video Games and Aggression in Teenagers

 

SPORTS:

• Organized Sports
  • The Atlantic:  The Income Disparity in Youth Sports
  • Youth Sport:  Positive and Negative Impact on Young Athletes
• Safety
  • Johns Hopkins:  Sports Safety
  • National Geographic:  Building a Better 
  • OrthoInfo:  A Guide to Safety for Young Athletes
• Women in Sports
  • NCAA: Title IX Frequently Asked Questions
  • Washington Post:  U.S. National Soccer Team Hopes to Send a Message to Girls Everywhere
  • Washington Post:  Gender Politics Don't Belong in the Classroom, but ...

ADDITIONAL TOPICS:

• Animal Testing
  • Nature:  Software Beats Animal Tests...
  • Human Society:  It's Time to Go Cruelty Free
• Climate Change 
  • Smithsonian Tween Tribune
  • United Nations:  Climate Change
• Consumerism
  • New Statesmen:  "Knots in My Stomach" - How YouTube Consumerism Affects Children and Teens