Project plan

1) Provide three steps for your research with a brief explanation of how this information will lead to addressing your question. These three steps will correspond to your future three research rounds (blog posts #3, #4 and #5). 

Step 1: Understand why teenagers procrastinate work 

I will research why teenagers and students procrastinate and what causes them to delay their work. This will help me understand the reasons behind procrastination and why it can be so difficult to stop it. 

Step 2: Discover how procrastination affects teenagers 

I will research how procrastination affects students lives. This includes their schoolwork, stress, motivation, and most importantly daily lives. This can help me understand why it is important to manage procrastination and develop academic resilience. 

Step 3: Find strategies to overcome procrastination 

I will research different strategies that teenagers can use to manage their time, and complete their work on time. This will help me find useful ways to overcome procrastination and become more resilient when facing challenges a school. 

2) Provide 5 valid sources that might be useful to address the question. 

• American Psychological Association — The First Step to Overcoming Procrastination: Know Thyself 
  Link: https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/psn/2017/01/overcoming-procrastination 
  This source explains reasons students procrastinate and how understanding their habits can help them improve! 

• American Psychological Association — Why We Procrastinate and What to Do About It 
  Link: https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/procrastinate 
  This source explains how emotions can lead to procrastination and discusses ways we can manage it. 

• Frontiers in Psychology — How Study Environments Foster Academic Procrastination: Overview and Recommendations 
  Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.540910/full 
  This website explains how distractions, deadlines, and study environments can affect our procrastination. 

• New Zealand Council for Educational Research — Four Strategies Teachers Could Use to Help Their Students Overcome Procrastination 
  Link: https://www.nzcer.org.nz/nzcerpress/set/articles/ill-finish-it-tomorrow-four-strategies-teachers-could-use-help-their 
  This article discusses strategies that teachers can use to help students start and complete their schoolwork. 

• Psychological Science in the Public Interest — Toward a Holistic Approach to Reducing Academic Procrastination With Classroom Interventions 
  Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09637214211070814
  This research discusses why students procrastinate and how students and teachers can work together to reduce it. 

3) Explain how this question will have implications for both yourself and your community. 

• Impact on myself: 

This inquiry question is important to me because quite honestly I sometimes procrastinate and wait until the last minute to finish my schoolwork. This can make me feel stressed and make it harder to complete assignments. By researching this topic, I hope I can learn better time management strategies and develop stronger academic resilience so I can handle school struggles more efficiently. 

• Impact on my community: 

This inquiry question could help other students in my school who also struggle with procrastination! By sharing what I learn, I could help my peers understand why they procrastinate and discover other strategies to manage their schoolwork too! This could help them understand and improve on themselves for the future.