Biography Research Project - Digital and Print Activities
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Who do your students admire? Our world and history is filled with so many amazing human beings! Use those people to help your students sharpen their research skills and learn about the world, human nature, and life-lessons.
Teaching research skills is a snap with this easy-to-use digital and print notebook. It will guide your students with research questions and prompts that will direct their research.
What teachers are saying about my digital resources:
- "Saved me a ton of time and it was perfect to add to Google Classroom"
- "Exactly what I needed. Thank you!"
- "Fun and well thought out resource!"
By the end of this lesson, your students will have:
- researched a person of either their or your choosing
- used reference materials to locate information about how a person grew up, became notable, lived, and left a mark on the world
- imported/found pictures
- analyzed why this person is important
- determined what we can learn from him or her
- created a digital or print poster that can be shared with others
- evaluated important events of this person's life
- created a works cited page
What you'll get:
- digital and print notebook your students can write in
- the notebook includes prompts - so it's self-directed
- research questions about a person's background, early life, influences, achievements, legacy, and credo
- teacher resource with tips for getting the most from this
This is going to save you so much time!
Ways to use this:
This research notebook is flexible!
- Allow students to choose any person to research
- Create a list for your students can choose from
- Complete a whole-class study
- Use for author studies
- Cross-curricular ā science, history, art, music, math!
- Self-guided
Use for:
- Black History Month (Feb)
- Womenās History Month (March)
- Irish-American Heritage Month (Mar)
- Jewish American Heritage Month (May)
- Asian Pacific Heritage Month (May)
- National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sep 15 ā Oct 15)
- American Indian Heritage Month (Nov)
You can use this all year long to expand studentsā background knowledge and encourage their curiosity.
Reasons to love this digital & digital resource:
- ready to use today -- just share with your students!
- easy-to-use to incorporate research into your warm ups, workshop time, or centers
- prompts direct students -- helps them control the amount of information they need to find
- makes research fun and interesting!
- a great sub plan!
- you can use this all year!
You'll love incorporating research with these mini research activities that you can use all year:
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I can't wait to hear from you! I read and respond to all feedback ā please let me know how you use this resource & earn TPT credits at the same time! And if you have any questions, just pop them into the Q&A below, and I'll get right back to you!
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With gratitude,
Marypat
