Pop+Culture-+Internet+sites+to+carry+out+your+research.

= Hi Year 8 Students, = = = = You may like to use these sites to carry out your research for your Pop Culture task. They cover fashion, food, music, politics, fads, historical events, New Zealand history etc. Just click on the link to check them out. Remember to acknowledge your source of information when writing your references. =

= = = [|20th Century Decade by Decade.] =

= [|History Central: Major Events of the 20th Century. Major Events | Academy Awards | Sports Highlights | Tony Awards | Popular Books, Television, and Movies, plus much more.] =

=Popular History=

= I stumbled upon this very cool site. It has links where you can access different years and see what was going on in the world at the time. E.g. This week in news. This week in pop culture. This week in pop history. Or the ultimate trivia website. Call it anything you want. Pick a week of the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's and 2000's and follow the news, pop culture, trends, music, television, movies. All research is culled from off-Internet resources. The ultimate week-by-week resource and the website that brought the format to the Internet. Since 1998. = = = =[] (Main site)=

= [|Food. Dining through the decades. 100 Years of American Food] =

= [|Fashion Era: Fashion-era contains 755 content rich, illustrated pages of Fashion History, Costume History, Clothing, Fashions and Social History.] [|Sitemap] =

= [|Fashion for Woman. Fashions: What Women Wore History of women's fashions, and how fashions have influenced the lives of women in different periods. Historical costumes, essays and more.] =

= [|New Zealand History Online.] =

= [|Crazy Fads] The most popular fads from decades past. Find out what was //popular// when your parents were kids, or take a nostalgic trip down memory lane from your own **...** =

= [|History Timeline of the 20th Century] Browse through this history timeline of the 20th century to examine each decade within this amazing century. = = = = [|100 Years of events. (Great site. Just click on the year you want and it will tell you about what happened.)] =

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= [|Pop culture-music] Pop Culture Madness Specialty Music and Annual Song Charts. Scroll down to see all the hits through the years. =

= [|This Day in History (History channel)] =

= [|Years. Want to find out the most popular titles from 1934? How about a list of people who were born in 1976? The most popular people who died in 2000? Follow the year links below to view events, movies and information relating to that year.] =

=[|New Zealanders Overseas - Making Our Mark – Pop Culture]=

=[|New Zealand’s heroes – shaping our view of ourselves]=

=[|Kiwiana - quintessentially kiwi (Figures who have contributed to popular Kiwi culture)]=

=[|The food we love – the tastes of New Zealanders]=

=**You Tube Videos on Pop Culture.**= = = =I have tried to select clips which reflect elements of Pop Culture throughout time.= = = = Fashion 1895-1920 (A selection of clips from Huntley Film Archives showing fashions from the late 19th and early 20th century. )= = = =Fashion of the 1950's (2.25mins) = = = =60's Fashion (8.57mins)= = = =Fads of the roaring 20's= = = =**1960s Time Tunnel Medley, Part 1 - All the Number One Hits in Order! (9:56 [|)] ( **From the first day of 1960 through the last day of 1964, here is the first half of this decade's No. 1 hits in the USA.)= =80's Music Videos-No1 Hits(9.21mins) A selection of U.S chart topping 80's music videos. = = = =70s Disco Hits - A Video Compilation of Disco Music from the 70's (9.55mins) = = = = = =[| Evolution of Dance (funny)]= =[| Michael Jackson's fashion through the years]= =[|Prediction of what people thought fashion will be like in the year 2000 (interesting!)]=