For my ADL 10 and science project, I have chosen to research about fish farming.

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Part 2 :

1) What questions did you need to research in order to research your topic?

For my research topic of fish farming, every bullet point was a question to guide my research. Here is the list: Is fish farming really bad for the environment? Why is fish farming good? What are the issues with fish farming? How is the environment affected (by fish farming)? How are the four spheres affected? Is indoor fish farming a good alternative

2) What new or familiar digital tools did you try to use as you worked through this project?

For my project, I chose to use Microsoft Sway. I like to use Sway because it is a very nice format to write your info and it is easy to read and mark. I have used sway before and I plan to use it on future projects. My browser for this whole project was Google Chrome because I find it very reliable. I also used YouTube to research my topic. I did not use any specific info from YouTube, but I used it to familiarize myself with this subject. I did not include the links to the videos that I watched because I didn’t use their info. A website that I have never used before was Easybib. I found it very useful to put a link into Easybib and it would sit the source for you. I also used Sway to get ride of the normal link and link the citation to the website. To find the pictures I used Pexels and flickr to get half of my pictures and the other half I used the search image bar directly in Sway. Most of Sway’s pictures came from Wikipedia but they only let you use pictures that had a license that you are allowed to use.

3) What was the process you used to investigate the topic?

The process that I used to research my project was first, research my topic and find relevant info on the topic. Second, make sure that the information that I have is not fake by looking up the information on other websites. Third, write down my information into Microsoft Sway (in my own words). Fourth, cite the website I used for my information using EasyBib. Fifth, use Sway to make the citation the link to the website. Sixth, find a image that is appropriate to use for my information. Seventh, put the link to the image on a separate text box at the bottom. Eighth, think of an other question that I can ask to guide my research. Ninth, and finally, write down my question as a heading into my Sway. After this process, I would repeat it for each question.

4) How did you verify and cite the information you found?

To verify my information, I would check with different sites before I used the information. For example, I said that recent studies warn people from eating farmed fish. Before I used this information, I googled it and many different websites said it. I would only site the first website that I used on EasyBib. Otherwise I would have had citations for websites that I just used to verify information.

5) How did the process of completing this challenge go? What could you have done better?

I was really happy with the process of completing this task. I thought that it was a very effective process and gave me all of the information that I needed. I found EasyBib very useful in citing my sources and will definitely continue to use it throughout high school. For something that I would do next time would be to use the online library for riverside as I have heard it is very useful. I am going to be honest, I did not even try to use it and I just used Google Chrome. I also did not cite the source for pictures on EasyBib. For next time, not just putting the links, but citing the sources will be a good idea. Completing this assignment was very challenging because with the subject of fish farming, the internet is very two sided. You will either get a website that basically says,” fish farming is good because we produce more fish and it offers more jobs”. On the other side, the internet would just say, “fish farms pollute the environment and give you fish not sanitary to eat”. So it was hard to research this topic because many websites were like this. It was a good challenge for me and was lots of fun to learn about this topic.