Biography Research | Wax Museum Project | Graphic Organizers | Writing

Bring history to life in your classroom! This product will walk your students step by step through the research and writing process to help them write a biography. It also has resources for a Biography Museum culminating activity.

This is the PRINTABLE VERSION, the DIGITAL VERSION is available here.

In this resource you will find:

• Writing Process Checklist: A checklist of steps from start to finish in student friendly language.

• Prewriting pages: Brainstorming options for helping your students activate their prior knowledge and begin thinking about what they already know about their subject.

• Research pages: A separate page for each paragraph to help students organize facts that they find while researching.

• Biography article: A model article that is organized with the same information that the students will write in their own biographies.

• Rough draft pages: Scaffolded paragraphs to ensure that your students’ paragraphs contain a topic sentence, detail sentences and a concluding sentence.

• Topic/Concluding sentence examples- Several examples of topic/concluding sentences for each paragraph.

• Revising/editing checklist: A detailed checklist to assist students with revising and editing their biography.

• Final copy booklet: A variety of lined pages for students to publish their biography report.

Teacher Resources include:

• Unit Overview: A day by day outline of our biography research writing unit.

• Parent Letter: A letter detailing the student biography choice selection.

• Biography List: A list of possible biography subject choices.

• Suggested Websites: A list of website resources and kid-friendly search engines.

• “How to Write an Introduction” handout: A handout describing three strategies for writing an introduction with examples of each.

• Biography Report Rubric: Use this rubric to grade your students' biography reports.

Museum Resources include:

• Teacher Tips: Tips and tricks for running a successful museum event.

• Parent Letter: A question and answer format parent letter to introduce the project.

• Project Checklist: A step by step checklist to assist students in completing the project at home.

• Grading Rubric: A rubric written in student friendly language to guide student work and help you to grade their project.

• Museum Invitation: Half page invitation to share date, time and place for your museum event.

SEE WHAT OTHER EDUCATORS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS RESOURCE:

❤️"This unit is so thorough! Students and parents loved the Living Wax Museum! I think we have a new 3rd grade tradition!"

❤️"This is a fantastic resource!  The research pages and rough draft pages are really helping my kids stay organized with the project!  They are so excited for our upcoming wax museum!"

❤️"This was one of my favorite projects of last school year.  The kids were amazing, and our living wax museum was a HUGE hit.  This is a fantastic resource.  I am looking forward to our next museum day!"

❤️"I work with SpEd students and this was so helpful when we did research. It helped them stay organized and they were able to see what information they needed to find!"

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