After the announcement of National history day I came to my teacher and
asked her for some ideas for a topic. She had about 5 thick books that contained people that impacted society positively. I opened the first book and started flipping through it and I wrote down 3 names until I was amazed by Ding Darling so I decided to do him. To conduct my research I started by doing online research. The online search gave me a good starting place. After 3 weeks of online research I needed to start other types of research. Conveniently the school was taking us to the state historical building where I got hands on with archives and original penmanship. I also go to look at microfilms of newspapers he was in. After the historical building I went to Iowa State University library where he publish many books though the libraries press. I got 3 books and 4 cartoon books of his work. I chose website because of last year I did a documentary and it had went corrupt 2 times and was very time consuming to redo it. Instead of dealing with that again I decided to do a website and it would be able to do it on our mac at home and school and windows laptop unlike last year I could only do it at my mac at home. I also wanted to code the theme to see how hard it is to do because I had been learning coding. My project relates to theme of leadership and legacy because Darling Lead the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and his legacy still lives today with the NWF and U.S. biological services. When Darling was appointed president of NWF it had just started because of his ability of pulling together conservationist for a convention. His leadership led to his legacy of starting the NWF.