Research-+Past,+Present+and+Future

//**__Past, Present and Future Research Paper __**//
Have you developed an interest in a specific topic while interviewing different people? Has something come up that has really piqued your curiosity? Have you run across something that you really want to know more about? Do you have an idea for a project that none of the requirements or options quite satisfy? The opportunities to do some kind of research project for this unit is virtually limitless. What kinds of things make good topics? · Historical events //Maybe you are interested in a time period or event and you want to know more about it after discovering that a relative lived through it. For example, you could learn more about World War II because your grandfather fought in it. //  · Inventions or innovations //Maybe you are interested in new things that really changed the way people lived and you want to find out more after listening to stories from older relatives. For example, you could learn more about electricity after hearing your great grandmother talk about her memories of when it first came to her house. //  · Ways of doing things that have changed over time //Maybe you are interested in how people did certain things way back when. After finding out about your uncle’s interest in old cars, you could do some research on what cars were like a generation or two ago and how they have changed. //  · Cultural things involving people’s daily lives //Maybe you are interested in sports, fads, fashions, hobbies, movies, music, television… After discovering how important music was to your mother when she was your age, you could find out more about the pop music of her day. //  · Places that have changed over time, like neighborhoods, main streets, towns or cities //Maybe you have always been interested in the place where you live. After hearing stories about how much it has changed, you could find out what it was like in the past and what it was like for previous generations to live in. //

Finished products guidelines: <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">What you turn your interest and research into is entirely up to you. Whatever form your finished product takes, whether it be a book or a poster or a scrapbook or a model, it will need to include both a written component and a visual component. · <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Written Piece

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 9pt; tabstops: list 9.0pt; tabstops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -9pt;">//You have to do some kind of writing, but you do not have to do a short paper. Depending on your topic, there may be more creative ways to present information (interviews, letters, diary entries, poems, comic books).// · <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">Visual Aids

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; margin: 12pt 0in 6pt 9.35pt; tabstops: list 9.0pt; tabstops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -9.35pt;">//As with the written piece, you have many options here. Whatever you decide, the visual component should be as self-made as possible. If your topic is something like how cars have changed or a Grandfather's experiences on a WWII battleship, you could build a model. If Grandma spent a lot of her free time knitting or sewing, you could knit or sew something. It's up to you. You can build, draw, paint, model, film...// <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; margin: 12pt 0in 6pt;">Keys: · <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">The best projects are those that have some connection to you, your interests and family interests. · <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">The best projects are thoroughly and thoughtfully planned out. · <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif';">The best projects are neatly and carefully created. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Remember the Quick and Easy Tips to Make Projects Look Better. //