When I Was A Kid...
The Process

1.  Your first job will be to brainstorm questions for the interview.  Your questions need to be well thought out and not boring.  Check some of the following links to gain knowledge about interview questions.

2.  Make some type of graphic organizer (chart, table, etc) that will include your questions and a place to record the responses.  You may need to listen to the cassette recording or view a video tape of the interview to refresh your memory later.

3.  Who will you interview? They were all so interesting!  As a group decide which person will be the subject of your bio-presentation.  The group will need a biographer, historian, and recreational director.

4.  Time to go to work. 
Biographer
The biographer will make the Powerpoint presentation.  

Powerpoint should include-

  • pictures and information from the interview
  • any older pictures brought in by the living historian (scanned)
  • comparison with the living historian's life to a child's life now
  • historical events with links
  • invention information with links
  • audio or video
Links:
Biography Maker

Historian
The historian will create a timeline in Inspiration and a Venn diagram that will compare and contrast your life to the living historians childhood.
The timeline should include-

  • a sequence of events from the living historians life with the year included
  • pictures that go with the event
  • historical events and dates of inventions


Recreational Director
Take a picture with digital camera on sepia of everyone in group.
Take a plain digital picture and age it with photo editing program.
Create the directions and set up a game that you learned from the living historian.

The teacher will assign someone to take pictures of each person interviewed, record the interview on cassette and on video tape.