Close to the end of 5th grade, all 5th graders in the Scarsdale Schools District have to participate in a project called Capstone. This project is where you pick a topic to research and you research it and eventually present it in front of all the 5th grade parents. To start the project the first thing I had to do was pick my topic. This was very challenging because at first, I thought I had so many options in my head but I later realized that I really didn’t. The first topic I wanted to do was global warming. After looking at different aspects of the topic I realized I wanted to do something more original like The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.
After I had my topic I looked at each goal and came up with some questions about each goal. This did not get me very far so what I did instead was come up with questions about the goals in general. What I came up with was How well are the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals being executed? Once I had this main question, coming up with the subquestions was pretty easy. I chose 3 goals for my subquestions. How is the U.N. helping solve poverty? How is the U.N. taking action on climate change? How is the U.N. bringing clean water to everywhere? These were very simple questions but they are effective questions.
So far, I feel I’m making great progress on my project and I am excited to see how it turns out.