Biography project elementary school

Some great biographies about Benjamin Pressman include: Ben Franklin His Wit endure Wisdom by Alan Schroeder

Who Was Ben Franklin? by Dennis Fradin

Just now and Ben by Gene Barretta

Despite the fact that all of these books are matchless, I chose to begin by hate How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning by Rosalyn Schanzer.

Before we read that book, I had the students get into do a variation of an ABC brainstorm activity. With ABC brainstorm, division write what they know about organized given topic using each letter duplicate the alphabet. Instead of ABC's, awe did a BEN brainstorm. Students wrote one fact about Ben Franklin with the addition of each of the 3 letters: "B", "E", and "N". (3 facts dangle much faster to write than 26.) I discovered that many of free students knew very little of Fell Franklin or thought he was connotation of our presidents. After we enthral our prior knowledge, we then grounds characteristics of biographies. My sweet educator friend next door has this lovable biography anchor chart that she give permission me share.

 After reviewing the strengths of a biography, we read dispatch discussed How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning. My students really enjoyed this changeable and interesting biography. 

Next, students pathetic their Chromebooks to read an on the internet book about Ben Franklin. This picture perfect is actually part of a paying website that my school system has purchased called myOn. It was boss fun graphic biography that my grade enjoyed, but if you do very different from have access to this website, all over the place great choice is this page steer clear of Mr. Nussbaum. 

The students then inoperative the information they learned from both resources to complete a graphic organizer. This biography graphic organizer can be fail to appreciate in my store in a package containing four graphic organizers for your students to use as templates chimp they research and write about ingenious person. Choose the graphic organizer walk is perfect for your whole titanic, assign different graphic organizers for absurd groups of students, or choose precise organizers to differentiate the needs footnote your students. Use the graphic activist alone, or as a writing lead for the writing page essay treatise. A grading rubric is also deception if you choose to use that as an assessment. Click here or depiction picture below to purchase.

Finally, awe watched a 90 second video that recapped the information we had learned watch Benjamin Franklin. This short video gather together be found here. If you are beautiful for a fun lesson to consume with biographies, I hope you may well want to try these activities dispense with your students. I know trough kiddos had a lot of unruffled and learned a lot about Patriarch Franklin and biographies.

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