Hort 425: Prediction Search Records

You are expected to search for information in various locations, including web pages, government documents, magazines, newspapers, books, radio, and television.  You will select a minimum of 4 of these predictions to share with the class.  Each of the four must be from a different type of source.  For example, if you found your first prediction at a web site, then your other predictions may not be ones you found on the web. 

You are expected to consider various predictions (this means: more than the minimum).  Even if the first predictions you find seem perfect (very credible and very significant), you must find additional predictions for comparison before the due date.  You may still decide that the first ones are best, but you must consider more.  If you were running a business and trying to decide how the future could affect your business, you wouldn't stop when you had found a few good predictions of the future, you would constantly keep an eye or ear out for these. 

Keep a record of your search process, recording the good and the insignificant predictions that you find and the places that you looked but couldn't find predictions. 

Include the following for each prediction you find: 

date you found the prediction, 

reference the prediction was in (e.g. Time magazine, vol., pg.),

prediction (a statement of what could happen),

how credible (likely to happen?),

how significant (likely to affect the world), and

conclusion (why you choose to use or reject the prediction for your official entry). 

Include the following for each place you searched but found no prediction: 

date you searched, 

reference you searched (e.g. Time magazine, vol., pg.), and

comment (for example, why did you think it might be a good source).

Search Record 2 will show ALL of the predictions you found and the places you looked before selecting  your second two predictions. 

Submit your search records in person or by e-mail, courier, postal system, or fax.