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=**Research Project: The Year I was Born**=

What happened the year that you were born? What was going on in your town? Were there important events going on in your state or country? For this project, you’ll find out all the answers!

To find out what happened the year you were born, you’ll interview family members and adults, search for information at the library, and look for details on the Internet. Once you’ve gathered your information, present your findings on your wiki page on wikispaces.com. You should present your findings as if you were a reporter writing a special report about the year of your birth.

**Procedure:**
1. As you complete your research, record your information using the research form. Include all information you will need to prepare a Works Cited page. Use http://citationmachine.net to create your citations.

2. Interview your family and other adults about your birth and first year of life. If available, look through photo albums, baby books, and so forth. Before your interview, brainstorm a list of questions to ask. You can include questions about your parents’ occupation, other members of the family and community, pets, significant family and community events (in addition to your birth), activities family and friends were involved in, extended family members, favorite music, book, or sports team, and so on.

3. In the library, consult periodicals such as Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report for the month and year you were born. As you conduct your research, you can look for commercials, slogans, births, deaths, sports news, movies, books, plays, music, financial news, national news, international news, and religious events.

4. Search for your birth date on the Internet, using the sites listed below. Many of these sites give information for your birth date throughout history. To find more details for the month and year you were born, search your birth date and choose only those events that occurred in your birth year. http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/index.html http://www.inthe80s.com/movgross.shtml http://www.calendarhome.com/tyc/ http://www.olywa.net/blame/cal/index.htm http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/ http://features.yahoo.com/history/0222.html http://dmarie.com/timecap/ http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade80.html

5. Weave all of the information you find together into an interesting story on your wikispace and include a works cited page.

6. Remember, pictures must be cited too!