Biography Webpage Project:
1. Choose a famous person to research.
2. Search online to find information about your person.
2. What did this person accomplish to make him or her memorable?
3. What was his or her childhood like?
Include personal information such as,
4. What was the greatest influence on him/her? (people, ideas, events)
5. What is one important decision he/she made?
6. What was one problem he/she had in his/her life? and How did he/she solve that problem?
7. What was one thing he/she did that was important?
8. How did he/she prepare and create his/her success? (education, practice, never gave up)
9. What is one way he/she affected or changed the world?
10. What made you choose this person to research? What makes them interesting?
*Either take notes in your notebook or type information into a Microsoft Word document.
**Make sure you write in your notebook or on your Word doc where you found your information online. The exact web address. DO NOT write Google, Google is a search engine.
Create a Web Diagram on a piece of white paper to organize your biography information.
Here are two examples of what it should look like:click on the links below---->
http://khs-trusd-ca.schoolloop.com/file/1356613690895/1243624862471/5637753633663233570.pdf
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson243/web.pdf
Create a biography cube on the following site using your research information.
Please save your bio cube to your computer.
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/cube_creator/
***Your goal is to have all of your research, web diagram, and bio cube complete by Thursday. We will create logins for your webpages so you can enter all of your info on your webpage.
We will create logins for our biography webpages and learn how to use the webpage creator site. www.weebly.com
Pages to include on your biography website:
Improving Typing Skills Lesson
Access the following site: www.typingweb.com
Click on Start Typing, then on the right side under "Don't have an account" use your school id and password to create a new account.
Start with the Home Row lessons then advance to the more difficult lessons as you improve your skill level.
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Website evaluation lesson--
Click on the following webpages to access whether they are reliable, accurate, credible, and current websites:
1. California's Velcro Crop: http://www.umbachconsulting.com/miscellany/velcro.html
2. Newbery Medal and Honor Books: http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal
3. Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division (DMRD): http://www.dhmo.org/
4. The Liberty Bell: http://www.nps.gov/inde/liberty-bell-center.htm
5. Alzheimer's Disease: http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_what_is_alzheimers.asp
6. Dog Island: http://www.thedogisland.com/
7. Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus: http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
8. Republic of Molossia: http://www.molossia.org/countryeng.html
9. All About Explorers: http://allaboutexplorers.com/
10. Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org/
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Practice lesson on How to put library books in order on the shelf--
Order in the Library
1. Choose a famous person to research.
2. Search online to find information about your person.
- Recommended sites to use:
www.biography.com
www.infoplease.com/people.html
www.s9.com/Browse
http://www.sldirectory.com/studf/bio.html
Questions to answer about your person:
2. What did this person accomplish to make him or her memorable?
3. What was his or her childhood like?
Include personal information such as,
- Birthdate
- Birthplace
- Family life
- Education
- Occupations
- Death date and location if dead
4. What was the greatest influence on him/her? (people, ideas, events)
5. What is one important decision he/she made?
6. What was one problem he/she had in his/her life? and How did he/she solve that problem?
7. What was one thing he/she did that was important?
8. How did he/she prepare and create his/her success? (education, practice, never gave up)
9. What is one way he/she affected or changed the world?
10. What made you choose this person to research? What makes them interesting?
*Either take notes in your notebook or type information into a Microsoft Word document.
**Make sure you write in your notebook or on your Word doc where you found your information online. The exact web address. DO NOT write Google, Google is a search engine.
Create a Web Diagram on a piece of white paper to organize your biography information.
Here are two examples of what it should look like:click on the links below---->
http://khs-trusd-ca.schoolloop.com/file/1356613690895/1243624862471/5637753633663233570.pdf
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson243/web.pdf
Create a biography cube on the following site using your research information.
Please save your bio cube to your computer.
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/cube_creator/
***Your goal is to have all of your research, web diagram, and bio cube complete by Thursday. We will create logins for your webpages so you can enter all of your info on your webpage.
We will create logins for our biography webpages and learn how to use the webpage creator site. www.weebly.com
Pages to include on your biography website:
- 1. A page about yourself--a bio page that is about you (your birthday, your interests, etc)
- 2. Include the following biographical information on 1 page:
- Early years about your person (where they went to school, anything interesting about their childhood, young adulthood)
- Career life--What does he/she do for a living?
- Accomplishments--What has your person accomplished in life? What makes them famous or memorable?
- Any other interesting information about your person? 3. A Bibliography page listing where you found your information.
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Common core standards addressed:
W.7.7. Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation.
W.7.8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions or others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
W.7.9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Improving Typing Skills Lesson
Access the following site: www.typingweb.com
Click on Start Typing, then on the right side under "Don't have an account" use your school id and password to create a new account.
Start with the Home Row lessons then advance to the more difficult lessons as you improve your skill level.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Website evaluation lesson--
Click on the following webpages to access whether they are reliable, accurate, credible, and current websites:
1. California's Velcro Crop: http://www.umbachconsulting.com/miscellany/velcro.html
2. Newbery Medal and Honor Books: http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal
3. Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division (DMRD): http://www.dhmo.org/
4. The Liberty Bell: http://www.nps.gov/inde/liberty-bell-center.htm
5. Alzheimer's Disease: http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_what_is_alzheimers.asp
6. Dog Island: http://www.thedogisland.com/
7. Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus: http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
8. Republic of Molossia: http://www.molossia.org/countryeng.html
9. All About Explorers: http://allaboutexplorers.com/
10. Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org/
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Practice lesson on How to put library books in order on the shelf--
Order in the Library