Forensic Toxicology: Drug Research Project
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Database Sources: More Available at Online Research Library on school desktop or your eClass.
Website Sources:
DAY ONE: Research on Drug
1. Open this Forensic Toxicology page by choosing it under RESEARCH from the Media Center page, located best from the Lanier HS page under Academics.
2. Log in to GCPS Student Portal, G Suite for Education, and Scrible (Make and use a Library called "Toxicology." ALWAYS use your g.gcpsk12.org school email acct.)
3. Make a Copy of the Google Research Information Doc and change its title to your topic drug, poison, or substance.
4. Open a source on your substance from Science in Context database if possible. Use at least one government source and one database source and at least three total.
5. Practice Scrible citation and tools to try out research steps and resolve questions before independent research time.
Research Facts Required (as seen on Google Doc):
1) What is it? Drug category, Schedule, etc.
2) Prescribed, legal or illegal, including any positive health benefits and/or medical uses for legitimate use--original purpose and why people choose to use it.
3) Dosage information, ingestion (how people use it), and any possible drug interactions
4) Drug or substance effects: PHYSICAL
5) Drug or substance effects: EMOTIONAL / MENTAL
6) Drug or substance effects: SOCIETAL
7) Withdrawal or other long term effects (physical or mental) of its use
8) Toxicology tests used to identify the drug (presumptive and/or confirmatory)
9) CASE STUDY: Find a case where this substance was used in a poisoning, overdose, or crime and summarize it.
10) Other interesting or important facts not yet included.
Scrible Reminders:
*Always make sure any online source you use has been added to the correct Assignment Library (building button).
*Use the sticky note button to comment on a passage on the source itself.
*Use the quote signs button to check, correct, or copy the source information.
*Add the online sources you use to your Bibliography to get a copy and paste version of your Works Cited to add to the Google Doc deliverable AND to the sources on your project itself.
DAY TWO: Presenting Research
1. Make a Google Site or Weebly Site to showcase what you learned about your topic substance. (See "Using Google Sites" section of this website.)
2. Divide the information from Research Questions 1-10 among several pages of your website presentation.
For example, your home page could include # 1, 2, 3, & 8.
You could do separate pages on larger topics such as case study(#9), other interesting facts or FAQ (#10), a page on physical effects (#4) , a page on mental/emotional effects (#5) and include withdrawal information (#7) if applicable on either of those pages.
Societal effects (#6) make sense for misuse and addiction to drugs, so if you are doing a poisonous substance, substitute in some historical information or other equivalent facts.
3. Include a separate page for Works Cited which is easy to paste in from Scrible once you use the ADD to BIBLIOGRAPHY feature on the research tool.
1. (anabolic) steroids
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13. Prescription Opiods, such as Oxycodone
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24. lead
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