Biography bottle project ideas
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Biography Projects That Students Enjoy!
Students love having choices, but they may not love writing reports. I’m going to share how using CHOICE you can watch your elementary students eagerly work on and create some amazing biography projects. Use student enthusiasm to integrate and teach deep concepts at the same time with the focus on learning more about a famous person during a biography report project.
There are so many educational standards to cover during the course of your year but by integrating them into a fun and engaging project, you can do it! Keep reading!
A well-designed project-based biography project can integrate and cover lots of content standards, including:
·Reading – a novel at his/her own reading level and comprehending the non-fiction text
·Writing – note taking, rough draft writing, final copy writing, poetry writing, listing sources used for research
·Speaking – public speaking during a wax museum event or other presentation can let students demonstrate the speaking standards to show content, organization, us
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5 Quick and Easy Biography Crafts to Try Now
Biography crafts engage kids in learning. Let’s look at five possibilities. First, to focus on character traits, try a foldable. If you’d like kids to refer to events in the person’s life, create social media posts or build biography cubes. To bring in history, use double timelines. And lastly, if you’re pinched for time, make cute little tube characters.
Ms. Sneed Explains 5 Biography Crafts
Our favorite fourth grade teacher, Ms. Sneed, sat at the back table with her student teacher. “Let’s continue planning our ELA block,” she said. “Today, we’ll work on our biography unit.”
She pulled a thick file folder from her teaching bag. From it, she pulled out a set of typed lesson plans.
“As you can see, we’ll start the genre study with picture books. Then kids will read full-length biographies. Instead of boring book reports, I’d like them to do some crafts.”
“Fun!” Mr. Grow exclaimed.
Ms. Sneed smiled and set some sample project
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Data Biographies: Getting to Know Your Data
One of the most important takeaways from the NICAR conference — in my opinion — is the understanding that data stories can be simultaneously confusing and exciting. While I was there, I led a presentation on the importance of data biographies, and I’d like to share some of what I talked about with you.
There are many experts out there with years or decades of experience producing fascinating data stories and there are just as many (okay, probably many more) people still learning how to use data and experimenting with data journalism. When I’m introducing students to the world of data analysis and visualization, I’m often asked what the most important step in working with data is, and my answer is always the same: developing data biographies.
Too often, inexperienced data users make the mistake of taking their data at face value — assuming the story they see at first glance is the true (and only) story the data has to tell. I like to encourage people to treat data the way they would a human source. You’d
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