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Process Paper
Why we chose our chose this
topic:
When we started the National History
Process, we thought to ourselves, “What would be a good topic that was about a
turning point in history?” We
brainstormed a few from ancient history but then we realized it would be easier
to research something we already had some background information on, so we
started looking into the modern era.
Then we realized we should research electricity because it is everywhere
in our lives and everything uses electricity to operate and the top person for
usage of electricity is Thomas Edison.
How we conducted our
research:
The day we decided on Thomas Edison we all
went home and looked up and printed out research on his early life to learn
about Edison’s child hood and try to make connections between his young self and
the achievements of his adulthood.
Then we went to our public library and consulted the librarians about
Thomas Edison to see what they knew and if there were any good primary and
secondary books or articles in the library or if they knew were we could get
any. We checked out the books we
got and used the libraries work stations and computers to print out some more
sources of information to study.
Then we set to work looking up some of his better inventions and
highlighting key facts about his life, also about some of his process about how
he makes his inventions. We also go
to each other’s houses and try to find more research and look at the research
the other had already had to see if we could find more in
it.
How we created and designed our
website:
We started are website by going on the
National History Day website and we found the website generator, Weebly, and we
then picked the format and design and set to work.
After some experimenting with the different types of designs and colors
we picked our collective favorites.
After that we all went on different computers and started typing the
thesis and the titles of the pages, putting pictures on and things like that to
test and to make sure we were happy with the design and format we picked. After a few days of work our website
started to look good and we were happy with what we had accomplished so far, we
had finished a few pages like the timeline and a few of the informative
pages. We were pretty happy with
our finished product when we were done.
How our topic relates to the
theme:
Our topic relates to the theme in several
ways. Thomas Edison, although only
one person created many of the technological advancements that we take for
granted today like electric light and movies. These advancements were one of the
major turning points to the industrial/modern era.
Without Thomas Edison many of the technology we take for granted today
like the motion pictures camera and light bulb may never have been
made.