I-Search: Ms. Turnbull's Topic List and 5 IQs

History of San Francisco

Abalone and other shellfish in Northern California

Brazilian Jazz

Tides

  1. Why do the tides move? 
  2. How do tides affect the shoreline?
  3. How do tides affect the animals that live on the shoreline?
  4. Why do the tides move different distances every day? 
  5. Why do the times of high and low tide change every day? 

Sharks

History of the Redwood Forests in Northern California

Siamese Cats

Colonialism in Africa

  1. Why did so many European countries try to colonize Africa? 
  2. How did Europeans manage to take over native peoples? 
  3. Why did the some of the Europeans finally leave? 
  4. How are African nations today affected by previous colonialism? 
  5. How has European colonialism affected African languages? 

Italian Cooking

Wolf Kahn