Extra project: Learning about my history

Historian's work is compared with the private eye's one, because he must search for all the clues to understand and know what happened in the past. This clues are called sources and we can classified them in: 

* Oral: interviews or testimonies of the witnesses

* Iconographic: photos, films, videos

* Written: all types of documents like newspapers, letters, etc.

* Material: all objects like clothes, glasses, etc. 

PART A: Oral information.

Talk with your grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters for investigating about your life when you were 3 years old. You can start with these questions and follow with those ones you imagine:

1. What were your toys when you were 3 years old? Which one was your favorite one?

2. What type of clothes did you wear at that age?

3. Which ones were your first words?

4. Where did you walk for first time?

5. When did your first teeth appear?

6. What anecdotes does your family remember?

PART B. Verify the information.

1. Look for photos of your childhood and confirm if the clothes and the toys your family have talked about appear. You can get more information from the pictures, for example the appearance of your parents, changes in your house, etc.

2. Search for material elements like your childhood's clothes or toys?, etc. Describe them; how they are made, shape, colours, etc.

3. Documents: All families in Spain has got a document where the data of its member are. Verify your datas and your relatives' ones. 

PART C. Conclusions. 

Think about all the activity and comment the things that have surprised you or you like the most.