Title Page:

Name, class, hour, date, project title, appropriate graphics

What Family Means to Me

A paragraph or series of statements explaining the importance of family to you.

Who Am I?

Full name (first, middle, last), birth date, birth place, birth time

Origins and meanings of first, middle, and last name
 

Name Origins
http://www.thinkbabynames.com
http://www.behindthename.com/
http://www.babynamesorigins.com/
http://www.babynamesworld.com/
First Names and what They Mean
http://www.genealogytoday.com/names/origins/
http://www.homepagers.com/names/
http://www.last-names.net/Articles/Anatomy.asp
http://www.americanbaby.com/home/name-origins.html

By Any Other Name
http://members.w-link.net/~maegwin/menagerie/name.htm

Name Finder
http://www.ivillage.com/namefinder/

Glossary of Last Names and Origins

Last Name Origins
Easiest to use Google. Type “last name origin” followed by your last name. In most cases, the best sites will pop up first.

My Family Tree

Downloadable Family Tree Chart in Various Formats (Courtesy of Misbach Enterprises)

Family tree, created in Inspiration
  Use File, Export to convert to a jpg for use in your presentation.

You will research your own family tree and copy your information from your charts into the program Inspiration to create a graphic of your family history.

Age in Days

Be sure to include a reference point from which to calculate your age on the slide.

Know Your Age
Your Age On Other Worlds
Age Calculator (medical calculators)
Age Calculator (and other calculators)
 

Cost of Goods the Year You Were Born
President and Vice President
Academy Award Winners
(On your presentation, title this slide as the year you were born, i.e “1968.”)

Create a time capsule of famous events, music, and other facts associated with the day and year of your birth.
http://www.dmarie.com/timecap/ Creates a time capsule of famous events. Save it to your folder on the server. 

Site this on your Works Cited page as:

“dMarie Time Capsule.” dMarie. 2006. Spectrum Unlimited, LLC.
   6 Dec. 2006. <http://www.dmarie.com/timecap/>.

News Events (Discuss 3)

I recommend using one slide for each event. You may use more than one if necessary.
 

Be sure to include some background explanation of the event as well as the geographical location and major personalities involved.

http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/
http://www.nytimescom/learning/general/onthisday/archive.html
http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.html

Famous People Who Share Your Birthday (Discuss 3)

Be sure to include some basic background information. Why are they famous?

Again, use a slide for each person.

www.biography.com
www.famousbirthdays.com
www.fun4birthdays.com/birthday
www.kidsparties.com/birthdates.htm

For actors, use Internet Movie Database www.imdb.com
Biographies can be found by going to Google and typing the subject’s name followed by “biography.”

Another good site is www.wikipedia.com for basic information.

Works Cited

List of sources used, formatted by the title of the web page and the web address (http://www.bluebullets.net)

How to cite pages in MLA format

The information gained from researching should be copied to a Microsoft Word document. Above each piece of information used in the PowerPoint should be listed the title of the web page used and its web address. Another suggestion is to organize your information under the slide titles in the Word document.