Informative Topics

First of all, almost any topic can be an informative topic. Be careful that your topic is not too broad. Secondly, remember you have a captive audience. This means that the class does not have a choice whether they listen to you or not. Some topics you will do in health class. Because of these reasons, there are topics that I ask you not to do: anything with drugs (cocaine, opium, marijuana, steroids, LSD, etc.), child abuse, eating disorders, STDs and sexual orientation issues. There are also topics I am going to ask you not to do because you will not be able to access information. These off limits topics would include: gangs and mafia. Once you have found your topic, tell Mr. Keller; no two people in one class can have the same topic.

You do not need to pick a topic off this list.

General Subjects

• Academic dishonesty
• Academic freedom
• Accidents, aircraft
• Accidents, sports
• Accidents, traffic
• Acid rain
• Adoption of children
• Adoption of wild animals
• Advertising
• Aerobic exercise
• African killer bee
• Age and discrimination
• Age and intelligence
• Agricultural pests
• Air bags, automobile
• Air pollution
• Alternative fuels
• Alternative medicine
• Amusement parks
• Animal communication
• Animal experimentation
• Animal extinction
• Animal training
• Anti-theft devices for cars
• Antibiotics
• Antioxidants
• Apartheid (in South Africa)
• Aquariums
• Architectural design
• Art therapy
• Art treasures
• Assassinations
• Assisted suicide
• Asteroids
• Astronauts
• Athletes, nutrition
• Athletes, psychology
• Athletes, women
• auto insurance
• Automobiles, electric
• Automobiles, safety
• Back pain
• Bald eagle
• Beekeeping
• Behavior, compulsive
• Behavior, Type A or B
• Bicycles, commuting
• big full moon
• Billboards
• Biotechnology & genetics
• Bird-watching
• Blood banks
• Blood pressure
• Bone marrow
• Books and censorship
• Burglary protection
• Caffeine
• Calcium
• Capital punishment
• Car theft
• Cave drawings
• Cell phone etiquette
• Censorship in the arts
• Charities
• Checking accounts
• Child labor laws
• Child support
• Children and war
• Cholesterol
• City planning
• Civil liberties
• Clean water
• Climatic changes
• Cloning
• College athletes
• College campus crimes
• College costs
• College or University
• Communication, family
• Communication, medicine
• Commuting
• Computer fraud
• Computer graphics
• Computer viruses
• Con artists
• Consumer protection
• Contamination of water
• Coral reef ecology
• Cosmetic surgery
• Cosmic rays
• Coyotes
• Credit card fraud
• Credit card misuse
• Crime prevention
• Criminal behavior
• Day care centers
• Death, accidental
• Debt relief
• Deep-sea ecology
• Deficit spending
• Depletion of ozone layer
• Desalinization of water
• Designated drivers
• Diagnosis, ultrasonic
• Diet and nutrition
• Digital music
• Digital television
• Dinosaur discoveries
• Disaster victims
• Discrimination
• Discrimination, disabilities
• Discrimination, gender
• Discrimination, weight
• DNA fingerprints
• Dog racing
• Dolphins
• Earth-friendly products
• Earthquakes
• Egyptian revolution of 2011
• Elderly drivers
• Electronic books
• Electronic mail (e-mail)
• Electronic music
• Employee crimes
• Endangered species
• Environmental protection
• Epidemics
• Ethics, business
• Ethics, medical
• Ethnic cleansing
• Euphemisms
• Euthanasia (assisted suicide)
• Evidence, criminal
• Expert witnesses
• Family therapy
• Famines
• Fashion design
• feminism
• Fiber optics
• Fingerprints
• Fire ants
• Firefighting
• Flea markets
• Folk medicine
• Food allergy
• Food poisoning
• Forest conservation
• Forgery
• Fossils
• Foster parents
• Galaxies
• Gambling
• Gardening
• Generic drugs
• Genetic engineering
• Geothermal power
• Gerrymander
• Global warming
• Gold discoveries
• Gorillas
• Government secrecy
• Grand jury
• Gray wolves
• Great Wall of China
• Green movement
• Greenhouse effect
• Grief
• Grizzly bear
• Groundwater pollution
• Growth hormones
• Guerrilla warfare
• Gullah dialect
• Gun control
• Gymnastics
• Habitual criminals
• Hailstorms
• Haiti
• Ham radio
• Handwriting
• Harassment, sexual
• Hate crimes
• Hay fever
• Hazardous materials
• Hazing
• Headaches
• Health care reform
• Health foods
• Health of workers
• Hearing impairments
• Heart transplants
• Hemophilia
• Herbal medicine
• Heredity of disease
• High speed trains
• Highway safety
• Hijacking of automobiles
• Historic preservation
• Holistic medicine
• Holocaust, Jewish
• Holocaust, Native American
• Home accidents
• Home design
• Home schooling
• Homeless persons
• Homeopathy
• Honeybees
• Horse-racing
• Housefly
• Hunger
• Hunting
• Hurricanes
• Hydrogen as fuel
• Hydroponics
• Hyperactive children
• Hypnotism
• Identity fraud/ protection
• Illiteracy
• Immigration
• In vitro fertilization
• Income tax
• Incurable diseases
• Indoor air pollution
• Industrial diseases
• Industrial robots
• Inequality of income
• Injuries, treatment
• Insanity defense
• Insect-eating plants
• Insects as food
• Insurance, car
• Insurance, health
• Insurance, life
• Intelligence tests
• International language
• Internet privacy
• Intolerance
• Invasion of privacy
• Investments
• Iron deficiency diseases
• Jails, overcrowding
• Jet lag
• Jewels
• Job hunting
• Job sharing
• Junk in space
• Junk mail
• Juries
• Juvenile delinquents
• Kangaroos
• Kidnapping, parental
• Killer bees
• Kleptomania
• Labor disputes
• Laboratories, testing
• Lakes, pollution
• Landfills
• language acquisition
• Language disorders
• Laser surgery
• Latchkey children
• Layoffs/Unemployment/welfare
• Lead poisoning
• Learning disabilities
• Libel and slander
• Lie detectors, deception
• Lightning
• Limousines
• Living trusts
• Living wills
• Loans, student
• Low-calorie diet
• Low-fat diet
• Macrobiotic diet
• Magic
• Mail-order catalogs
• Mandatory sentences
• Maps
• Marathon running
• Marine aquariums
• Marine pollution
• Marriage customs
• Marriage customs and traditions
• Massage
• Math anxiety
• Medical errors
• Medicinal plants
• Medicine, preventive
• Manic-depression
• Meteorites
• Metric system
• Microsurgery
• Microwave cookery
• Midwifery
• Migrant labor
• Military weapons
• Militias
• Misdiagnosis
• Moon, exploration
• Moonlighting
• Motorcycle gangs
• Mound-builders
• Memory techniques
• Murders, serial
• Music therapy
• Mythology
• Names, geographic
• Names, personal
• Nanotechnology
• Narcotic laws
• National parks
• Naturopathy (natural healing)
• Neanderthals
• Nuclear energy
• Nursing homes
• Occupational therapy
• Ocean dumping
• Ocean fishing
• Older workers
• Online auctions
• Online investing
• Open adoption
• Optical fibers
• Oral tradition
• Ordination of women
• Organically grown food
• Organized crime
• Outer space, exploration
• Ozone layer
• Pandas
• Parent-child relations
• Performance art
• Pesticides
• Phobias
• Plants, extinction
• Plants, medicinal
• Plea bargaining
• Poaching
• Police, job stress
• Political advertising
• Pollution
• Polygraphs
• Poverty
• Prehistoric animals
• Prehistoric painting
• Premature infants
• Primates
• Prisons
• Product safety
• Quit-smoking programs
• Radiation therapy
• Radio astronomy
• Rain forests
• Rare animals
• Recovering addicts
• Renewable resources
• Rescue work
• Robots
• Rock climbing
• Satellites
• Savant syndrome
• Scams
• Scientific fraud
• Sea farming
• Seafood contamination
• Self-defense
• Serotonin (happiness hormone)
• Sled dog racing
• Sleep, research
• Sleep
• Smuggling
• Soil erosion
• Solar power
• Space exploration
• Spam & junk e-mail
• Speech disorders
• Sports injuries
• Sunken treasure
• surfing
• Survival skills
• Taxes
• technology in the classroom
• Terrorism
• Tornadoes
• Toxic wastes
• Urban homesteading
• US Patriot Act
• Vegetarianism
• Vikings (not the sports team)
•  Victims of crime
• Volcanoes
• Water purification
• Weather forecasting
• Wikipedia
• Wildlife rescue
• Wind power
• Women’s rights
• X-rays
• Year-round education
• Zoological parks

Recreation

• The best carnivals–from New Orleans to Rio
• Touring Europe on a bicycle
• Hang-gliding
• Walking trips in Great Britain and Ireland

Exotic Information

• Possibility of life on other planets
• Homemade herbal remedies of Native Americans
• The incredible intelligence of bees
• The search for Atlantis
• The last Tsar of Russia
• Famous people who accurately predicted the date of their death

Personalities

• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Abraham Lincoln
• Akio Morita
• Albert Einstein
• Albert Schweitzer
• Amy Tan
• Anne Frank
• Antonio Vivaldi
• Any actor
• Any athlete
• Any musician/band
• Aretha Franklin
• Cesar Chavez
• Charles Lindbergh
• Charles Starkweather
• Chief Seattle
• Christopher Columbus
• Edward James Olmos
• H.H. Dalai Lama
• Jackie Robinson
• Joan of Arc
• John F. Kennedy
• José Carreras
• King David Kalakaua
• King Kamehameha
• Lee Iaccocca
• Louis Armstrong
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Malcolm X
• Mathew Shepard
• Mikhail Baryshnikov
• Mother Teresa
• Princess Diana
• Queen Kaahumanu
• Queen Liliuokalani
• Rachel Carson
• Sacagawea
• Socrates/ Aristotle/ Nietzsche
• Sojourner Truth
• Toni Morrison
• Virginia Woolf
• Yo-Yo Ma
• Zora Neale Huston

Frank Lloyd Wright (architect)

Health / Diseases

• Alzheimer’s disease
• Anxiety attacks
• Appendicitis
• Arthritis
• Autism
• bacterial infections
• Bird flu
• Cancer
• cerebral palsy
• Chronic fatigue syndrome
• Common cold
• Depression, mental
• Diabetes
• Dyslexia
• False memory syndrome
• Fetal alcohol syndrome
• Glaucoma
• Heart disease
• Hepatitis
• High blood pressure
• Immune system
• Influenza
• Insomnia & other sleep disorders
• Leprosy
• Melanoma
• Mental disorders
• Migraines
• Mouth, diseases
• Multiple personality
• Multiple sclerosis
• Muscular dystrophy
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder OCD
• Plague
• pox
• rare or extinguished diseases
• SARS
• Schizophrenia
• Sick-building syndrome
• skin diseases