Rancho Buena Vista High School
Ninth Grade Social Studies Project
BECOMING A STUDENT RESEARCHER

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                                            Focusing Your Topic OR . . .
         yOU cAN'T tELL eVERYTHING tHERE iS tO kNOW
         aBOUT aFRICA
                           

• Narrow by area of interest (What)
          Example: Africa
                                  and the law
                                  and society, and the family
                                  and the government
                                  and education
                                  and medicine
                                  and politics
                                  and religion

• Narrow by time (When)
      Example: Africa
                                  and ancient times
                                  and colonial times
                                  today

• Narrow by place (Where)
      Example: Africa
                                  the Sub Saharan Desert
                                  Uganda
                                  Ghana, etc.

• Narrow by persons (Who)
      Example: Africa
                                 women
                                 children
                                 soldiers