https://padlet.com/madpardo02/cnu1syutozox Made with a lightning strike of genius en-us 2018-07-23 03:55:53 UTC 2025-11-19 21:58:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png madpardo02 https://padlet.com/madpardo02/cnu1syutozox/wish/270835450 Essential Question: Why do societies find it difficult to function without a designated leader? Why can’t people function without a ruler?

Revised Question: Why do societies only function effectively with a set leader in place? Especially when so many parts of said society disagree about things should be run. Why is it that every civilization brings a particular person or group of people into power instead of people leading themselves?

Reflection: The main topic of this question is asking why humanity fails to live without guidance or authority figures in place to rule the masses. This question is mainly political, but also social. 


Extension: I could take this question further by researching the progression and election of past civilizations and compare them to today’s leaders. I could also interview groups of people with differing opinions on leadership, such as socialists, democrats, anarchists, gypsies, and republicans to expand my horizons and understand the several viewpoints and perspectives held by the citizens of nations run by a ruler.

]]> 2018-07-23 03:58:26 UTC https://padlet.com/madpardo02/cnu1syutozox/wish/270835450 madpardo02 https://padlet.com/madpardo02/cnu1syutozox/wish/271401638 Question: Why are we getting smarter as a society? 

Revised Question: Why are Americans seeing an increase in IQ across the nation? What has caused the gradual shift in intelligence over time?

Reflection: This question focuses on the advancement of American intelligence and questions the roots of Americans’ rise in intelligence over past decades. This question is almost entirely social, but I personally believe politics has come into play in minor ways.

Extension: I could take this question further by choosing a specific point in the past and comparing IQ scores, then making connections with the biggest changes since that time frame (For example, what’s different about medical care in 2018 compared to 1958?). I could gradually measure the changes across each decade and follow the pattern of things that may have direct relations to intelligence and wellbeing such as changes in insurance, schooling, medical practices, technology advancement, etc. With this data, I could follow the same steps and collect info on other countries and compare the societal/governmental changes and their impact on IQ (In other words, I could collect the same data on, say, Sweden. Then I could see if the same changes I monitored resulted in a comparable outcome (Did IQ change a comparable amount? Stay the same? Go down?)). If I repeat this process across several countries, economic systems, and time periods then perhaps I’ll have an understanding of the causes of the change in average intelligence in America.

]]> 2018-07-30 01:50:53 UTC https://padlet.com/madpardo02/cnu1syutozox/wish/271401638 madpardo02 https://padlet.com/madpardo02/cnu1syutozox/wish/272797179 Essential question: How does growing up in a single parent household (A home where only one parent of the child is present, leaving either the mother figure or the father figure absent from its life) affect children compared to children living in homes with two parents present?

Revised Question:
Do children living in single parent homes have lives significantly different from children with two parents in the home? Are there differences in mental wellness, likeliness to finish high school, likeliness to get a higher education, likeliness to become incarcerated at some point in their lives, or their likeliness to have a healthy relationship in the future?

Reflection: The main point of this question aims to pinpoint any differences in children in households with different parental norms, or if there are any at all. This question is not political, but not largely social either. However, I believe some biases held both socially and politically towards single parents may tip the scales in how the children are perceived and dealt with (meaning are children with one parent at home more likely to get in trouble at school? If so, is it because they lack structure or because their teacher doesn't agree with the household style and is therefore more picky with the student?).

Extension: I could take this topic of interest further by comparing data of incarceration rates, drop out rates, and higher education graduation rates of single parent children and compare them to children with both parents present in the home. I could also gather data about bias and stereotypes in the public school system from both students and teachers (see if there's a pre-existing expectation of certain behaviors or if there's programs in place for single parent children (my elementary school had a program called 'banana split' to help kids through the trauma of divorce and parental separation)). ]]> 2018-08-13 02:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/madpardo02/cnu1syutozox/wish/272797179