Activity Overview
Researching real people helps students to get a more concrete and compassionate understanding of the culture, lives, and perspectives of people from around the world and throughout history! In this activity, students will research a person and then fill in their biography graphic organizer worksheet to highlight their important life events and accomplishments.
Find many more graphic organizers here: Biography Worksheets. Teachers can add as many templates as they wish to differentiate and meet the varying needs of students or for early finishers to do more than one digital worksheet.
Template and Class Instructions
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Due Date:
Objective: Research a person and fill in the graphic organizer with important details about their life and add engaging imagery.
Student Instructions:
- Choose a famous or notable person to research.
- Using school resources, conduct research about the person's life.
- On the graphic organizer, include your person’s name and dates of birth, death and major accomplishments in sequence.
- Add appropriate characters and items to decorate your graphic organizer and represent your person.
- Click save and exit when you're finished.
Lesson Plan Reference
- [ELA-Literacy/W/4/7] Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
- [ELA-Literacy/W/6/6] Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting.
- [ELA-Literacy/RI/4/4] Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.
- [ELA-Literacy/RI/4/7] Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.
- [ELA-Literacy/RI/4/10] By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 4-5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Rubric
(You can also create your own on Quick Rubric.)
| Proficient | Emerging | Needs Improvement | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Description | The descriptions include at least four important facts about the famous or historic figure. | The descriptions include less than four important facts or they include information that is not pertinent to the famous or historic figure. | The descriptions are incomplete and do not contain important information about the famous or historic figure. |
| Artistic Depictions | The art chosen to depict the scenes, characters and items that are appropriate to the famous or historic figure. They enhance the poster by symbolizing or illustrating important facts about the figure. Time and care is taken to ensure that the scenes are neat, eye-catching, and creative. | The art chosen to depict the scenes, characters and items are mostly accurate, but there may be some liberties taken that distract from the assignment. Scene constructions are neat, and meet basic expectations. | The art chosen to depict the scenes, characters and items is too limited or incomplete. |
| English Conventions | Ideas are organized. There are few or no grammatical, mechanical, or spelling errors. | Ideas are mostly organized. There are some grammatical, mechanical, or spelling errors. | Storyboard text is difficult to understand. |
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