AP Research

Part 1: Developing a Research Interest

Join the google classroom for the course using the code: fedp7n6t

Open and Complete the Reflective Journaling Assignment

These prompts are designed to help you discover what actually interests you. Use them as "tiny experiments" to explore your thoughts, reactions, questions, and curiosities. Each entry can be a few sentences or a full page—it's up to you. Aim for honesty and openess, not perfection. Feel free to type or handwrite your responses and add images, graphics, or doodles where you see fit.

Try to answer a few prompts a month, don’t just wait until the last week of the summer. You can work in any order-- the prompts are not linear. Use this opportunity to REALLY explore your interests before you choose one topic for a whole school year!

Part 2: Understanding "R"esearch

1. Review two of these websites:

Skim through some of the academic papers completed by our former AP Research students. Try to find a few papers with topics you are interested in. I hope you notice the WIDE range of topics that can make up academic research in this course.

2. When you have looked at several papers, begin to consider what similarities and differences you see in the papers you wrote for AP Seminar & the paper you will write for AP Research.

3. Now, review this slide show overview of developing a research topic. This is a VERY general overview of the process we will be undertaking this year (you can ignore the out of date information on using the dewey decimal system).

4. Finally, begin to solidify your understanding of "R"esearch by completing this Google Form. You will get a copy of your responses by email.

Research Topic Overview

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