This document provides guidance to students on researching their topic for an essay on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It discusses finding and evaluating reliable sources, including searching online databases and keywords. Tools like annotation and collaboration platforms are introduced to help students organize sources and discuss their usefulness. Criteria for source reliability like author credentials and date are reviewed. Students are assigned to begin drafting an annotated bibliography with summaries and evaluations of two sources each to support their essays.