Topic Ideas 

Sometimes it seems difficult to find ideas  for your inquiry. There are a number of approaches you can take:

• Explore  news sites for current environmental issues
• Consider local issues that you are interested in or impact you​​

Here are a few to get you started. 

• An endangered species
• An invasive species
• A controversial issue like salmon farming
• The shark debate in WA and around Australia
• The causes and impact of soil salinity

Use the Padelt below to add your ideas or see the ideas of other.  Just click on the yellow cross in the bottom right hand corner to get strated.

Unsuitable Topics 

The following topics are considered unsuitable or difficult to research as they are either too broad / complex or there is not enough authoritative information on them. NOTE: These topics are NEVER done successfully so should be avoided.

• Plastic pollution in the ocean (too general)
• Disposable coffee cups (not enough authoritative data)
• Climate change (hard to define)
• ​Overfishing (too general)
• Impact of deforestation on the Bornean Orangutan (too difficult to get current data on the various contributing factors leading to their decline)

• Koala bears (too many locations with varying factors. Data is difficult to get)
• Disposable nappies (not enough authoritative data)
• ​Greenhouse gas emissions (too broad / complex)
• Coral bleaching (too broad)
• Bushfires - far too difficult to ascertain causes and obtain data.
• Fast Fashion - from manufacturing t disposal

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Topic not allowed

The following topics are not allowed as they have been used in the examples in the videos:

• Cane toads
• Seahorses
• The Southern Right Whale