Meg's+Research+Process

=My Research Process=

Section 1: My Question

 * I am interested in this topic because i enjoys swimming and playing in oceans. The fact that people are putting garbage into them makes we ant to find out why.
 * My research questions were:
 * What is water pollution?
 * What is being thrown into our water?
 * What laws are protecting our waters?
 * Where is it happeinging?
 * Who is doing it?
 * What are we doing to clean it up?

Section 2: My Research Process

 * When i was trying to find info for my research project there were a few different things that i did.
 * First, i went online and started looking for general information about what water pollution was.
 * Then i started looking for things that answered my research questions.
 * After that i searched for some videos that would show what water pollution was.
 * some problems that i came across while looking for research were things like...
 * i couldnt find good research for some of my questions.
 * for the questions that i couldnt find the info on I either changed the question, or went to a different search engine looking for different results.
 * a bunch of wesites i went to had nothing to do with water pollution at all, even though in the little description they had there was something to do with water pollution.
 * i refined my search so that i only got the really important stuff.
 * in our class and just on the wiki in general there were some people who gave me good advice along the way.
 * when i asked people for their thoughts on my page i got lots of responces that were good suggestions.
 * there were also some people in our class who were very good with computers. They helped me to do things like insert pictures, move around my words, and add things like videos and links.

Section 3: What I Learned

 * There was a lot of great information that i learned. These are three things that i thought were really important findings
 * 1. I learned that there are a lot more animals that we think that are being effected. For instance: animals like that manatee, turtle, sea otter, and the dophin are jsut a few of the anmals that are hurt through water pollution.
 * I learned taht careless factories pour their toxic wastes and garbage into rivers and oceans. They could disposed of them correctly, but that costs a lot of money. What they do instead is pour the garbage in bodies of water, then pay the fine for polluting. This is cheeper than paying to correctly dispose fo the garbage.