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My Independent Project
What was my key question? How did I find my focus question?
"How are animals treated during farming Once we got our ideas, we were
and how they should be treated when given a "proposal form" to complete.
slaughtered for food." Over the year,
we studied many Independent Project Proposal Form
different topics. This
Process was one of
Getting the Ideas
Why did I write about animal ethics as food?
‐ Self‐influenced due to my personal concerns for animals.
‐ Food is most common, and needed (especially meat).
‐ Seeing how animal cruelty is on an increase.
I changed this
Choices of Multimedia many times...
2000 words essay
or 750+ words essay and a
multimedia? I combined one
of these to form my
key question.
Some types of Multimedia
Artifact
Audio Performance
Presentation
Visual Presentation I changed my decision on
this during the process.
At first, I decided to do just a 2000 words
Writing the Essay
What did I do for the video? Plan
I have interviewed several of my friends and recorded them. Include global, national and local perspectives. I've decided to order
Then I edited and included them in an iMovie. There were my essay in this format because it will look more organized. I've also
only 2 questions asked and many of them answered them
applied visual pictures in my essay.
differently with different
Essay Plan I used
1 ‐ Uses of animals for humans. (Food)
2 ‐ Local views on how they're treated (negative ways, Chickens)
3 ‐ Local views on how they're treated (positive ways, Chickens)
4 ‐ National views on how they're treated (negative ways, dogs)
5 ‐ National views on how they're treated (positive ways, Religion)
Problems Encountered 6 ‐ Global views on how they're treated (negative ways, transport pigs)
Some problems encountered was during 7 ‐ Global views on how they're treated (positive ways, vegetarians)
8 ‐ Ways to stop people from being cruel
research.
Whether the sites I visited were reliable or
Ways I used get information
not?
from others
I tried to avoid sites which are unfamiliar
Interviews
DO NOT USE WIKIPEDIA! (Because anyone
Questionnaires
from anywhere can edit it!)
Research in more than one site and compare
the information you get to see if it can be Lastly, a bibliography!
I've recorded every of the sites I
"What if" Questions I asked used along the way to show
"What if everyone were vegetarians?" reference. This includes
pictures, videos etc. Jia Yi :) Year 11E
"What if everyone bought organic food?"