Welcome to the Modern Studies assignment
What will you be doing in this assignment?
• Researching a topic that interests you from modern
studies.
• Collecting some pieces of useful information to help
you with your assignment.
• Deciding if these pieces of information are useful to
you.
• Choosing how to present your findings and
conclusions.
• Making sure you follow advice so that you can pass
this assignment.
Researching a topic that interests you from modern studies
 You should agree an issue to research with your teacher.
 It must be from one or more of the units you study
in modern studies:
Democracy in Scotland and the United Kingdom
Social Issues in the United Kingdom
International Issues
 You should come up with a hypothesis to test, for example:
The majority of the Scottish people want independence.
The main reason young people get involved in crime is because there are no
jobs for them when they leave school.
Collecting some pieces of useful information to help you
with your assignment
You need to gather useful knowledge to help you understand what
your assignment is about.
You need to keep a note of where you got your information from.
You may have a guest speaker such as an MSP come to visit
your class and you can ask them questions to help you with your
research.
You will need to find information from at least two different sources,
eg the internet, a newspaper, an interview etc.
You need to make your own notes from the information you have
collected.
Deciding if these pieces of information are useful to
you, ie are they biased?
Are the sources of information going to help you with your
research?
You will need to use your modern studies expertise to help you
detect exaggeration and bias.
You should make some notes about how useful your sources are.
Choosing how to present your findings and conclusions
You need to think about what your final assignment will look like.
You may decide to use a:
• poster
• podcast
• wiki
• blog
• report
• digital presentation
• talk
or something else that you have thought of.
Your conclusions should relate to the hypothesis you set yourself
at the beginning of this research.
Your teacher will be on hand to advise you as you carry out this
exciting piece of work. You must listen to their advice.