Holiday PowerPoint Assignment



|The Day I Was Born Project Web Hunt |

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|How many days old are you? |

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|The moon looks different each day of the year. What did it look like the day you were born? |

|To find the phase of the moon, look at the different phases on this link and compare to your moon. Choose the one that looks |

|most like your moon and record it on your data sheet. |

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|Locate a great author who shares your birthday. Realize that most authors are adults & so they will not share your exact |

|birthday. You’ll find an author who shares the same birthday with you but who was born in a different year. |

|Try this site: Author Birthday Directory. Once you find your author, do a Google search to see what literary work they are |

|famous for. |

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|How much did things cost? Choose quicklink and keep going till you get to the finished tab. It will tell you everything there. |

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|Events On Your Birthday: |

|What events in history happened on your birthday? |

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|Use the links below also to answer the questions on your sheet. |

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|History Channel |

|Who shares your birthday? |

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|What TV shows were people watching? |

|Television Guide |

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|On the day you were born you were probably given toys by those who loved you. This site should help you recall some of your |

|earliest toys. Write about a toy you remember. |

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|What was playing at the movies? Find a movie from your birth year, read about it and record it in your own words. |

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|What does your name mean? Your parent’s very carefully chose the name you would carry for the rest of your life. But what does |

|it mean? |

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|Just for fun! The ancient Vikings used a form of writing called "Runes". Find out what your name would look like if you were a |

|Viking baby. |

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