Students create BioBags, a collection of texts that mark special times in their lives. BioBags provide a way for students to share a variety of events and texts.

Students interview other students, choose significant life events, rate them, graph them, and write about one or more, in this activity that integrates mathematical graphing with writing.

In this lesson students explore a number of sources to create a biographical timeline about a selected person. Students collaboratively research and resolve conflicting information they find during their investigation.

Students read biographies and explore websites of selected American authors and then role-play as the authors.

Students create a personalized biography for their reading buddy, and each child is the author, illustrator, and editor.

This lesson provides teachers with support for using text-dependent questions to help students derive big ideas and key understandings while developing vocabulary from the biographical text, Boss of the Plains. This biography relates the life of John Batterson Stetson as a hatting apprentice until he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and decided to explore the American West. During his time with the people of the West, he invents a better hat, nicknamed "Boss of the Plains," - the first real cowboy hat.

Students explore what Carol Jago calls the place "where life and art intersect" by reading Nikki Giovanni's poem, "Nikki-Rosa," and then writing about childhood memories of their own.

This site offers educational for kids in lots of topics, including: history, science, biographies, geography, games and fun.

Epic Books is an online collection of over 40 000 titles of award-winning fiction, non-fiction, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), biographies, graphic novels, DIY (Do It Yourself) and more. Sign up as an educator and the account is free. Epic Books can be used by teachers and students for read-alouds, shared reading, and independent reading time. Read-to-me and audiobook functions allow for the listening portion of a balanced literacy program. Teachers can use these books as part of interactive small group instruction for specific skills or strategies. They can also assign certain books and tasks for practice to individuals or groups.

Free for teachers - you must set up the free account and add students to your classroom in order to get a class code to provide to families. Then when students have that code, they can log in from home with free access.

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Watch this 45-minute session to review the content, tools, and workflows at the Gale Literature Resource Center.

The Gale Literature Resource Center provide biographies, work overviews, full-text criticism, multimedia materials, and author reviews from all eras. Intuitive research tools like Person Search, Topic Finder, and Google/Microsoft Integration support learners and researchers high school aged and above.

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ArcGIS is a powerful tool for learning in social studies for various reasons. It allows students to tell stories by visualizing, analyzing, and interpreting data related to location and place. This can be incredibly valuable in social studies, where understanding the spatial relationships between historical events, cultural phenomena, and natural resources can help students develop a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the world around them. Check it out"

This site, provided by Edhelper, offers many great free activities and projects all geared towards a better understanding of social studies topics, including: Canadian Theme Unit (units for individual province, books, leveled reading comprehension activities, maps and biographies), Country Theme Units, Economics, Famous Educators, Geography, History of Mathematics, How Can I Help?, Explorers, Biographies, Crime and Terrorism, Ancient America, Ancient China, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient India, Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Rome, World Religion, Middle Ages, Renaissance, European History: 1600s-1800s, Inventors and Inventions, World War I, World War II, History of Books and Writing, World Wonders.

There are also sections on Document Based Activities, World Problems and Issues, Social Studies Mixed Review Practice (Grades 1-6), Life Skills, and Time Lines.

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In this story Gertrude Ederle overcomes obstacles, both physical and social, in order to prevail at her lifelong dream of being the first women to swim the English Channel.

This lesson provides teachers with support for using text-dependent questions and Common Core literacy strategies to help students derive big ideas and key understandings while developing vocabulary using the biographic text, Gloria Estefan. Along with her worldwide musical fame, Gloria Estefan also experienced tragedy, but continued to help others in unfortunate situations. Gloriaĺĺs success has allowed her to receive multiple honors and awards for her selfless work leading to her being referred to as "a star with a heart."

During writing workshop, students research, write, revise, and share their own comprehensive biographies of African American jazz musicians.

Access various journals, magazines, newspapers, cyclopedia, research resources, primary sources (History), age appropriate resources for inquiry and PBL, videos, games, and health and wellness resources!

This excerpt from a biography explains how Pablo Picassos painting style changed over the twentieth century. It describes his Blue Period, Rose Period, and the period of Cubism.

Independant writing assignments for grades 1 through 9 including descriptive, expository, narrative paragraphs; poetry; scripts, letters, biographies, rebus stories, story from a picture, and reports.