Building Background & Skills
Student Directions
For this project, you will learn about the steps required to conduct some research before conducting research on a person of your choice. You will then take the biographical information you obtain, determine the most important and most interesting information, and create text and pop-up artwork to help convey the information. All of the information will be put together into a short pop-up book (no more than three pages) and will be shared with your peers in a "gallery walk" type of experience.
Work through all tasks in this folder in order (student completion rules will apply). Note to PCTELA: We use Schoology as our LMS; student completion rules have been used in order that students complete each step in order without skipping ahead. I will share what the Schoology experience is like during the session.
You will not be able to move to a later task until you complete the earlier ones.
When a task asks you to submit something, please do so as soon as you complete the task. Do not wait because you may be more apt to forget to complete it.
You should spend at least three days in researching your person of choice (only one student allowed to work on a particular person - a Google form will be used to keep record of whom each student will be researching).
An additional instructions page will be included between the research portion of the project and the actual construction of the pop-up book.
The total project should take about two weeks to complete.
The following blocks would be completed by students in order from left to right. The final task in building background knowledge and skills is "Plagiarism & Citing Sources."
Biography & Research Introduction
You will need headphones for this task.
Open Clever and then select BrainPop. Open the Biography Assignment Part 1.
You have been assigned four different BrainPop video lessons (Biography, Research, Plagiarism, Citations). Today, you will focus on the first two assigned videos (Biography and Research).
After you watch the videos, take the quizzes, and complete the assigned research graphic organizer, search for two other biographies of historical figures found on the BrainPop site. (just type "Biography" in the search window).
Using the Create tab when you submit the assigment, type three qualities that all biographies share.
Biography Resource Websites
Review information from the following sites to view several biographies in order to help you consider possibilities of items to include in your own biography.
If you have not yet selected a person to research, these sites contain many possible candidates for your consideration. Remember: you will need to include some "pop-up" artwork/graphics for the person you select, so keep that in mind as you reflect on your choice.
Martin Meylin Media Center Research Links
Mr. Nussbaum People Biographies
Time: 100 Most Influential of 2020
4000 Years of Women in Science
Discovery Education Video on Biography Writing
Open Clever and then select Discovery Education.
View the assigned video about writing a biography. Pay particular attention to the four key elements that make up a biography and think about how you will use these elements in the creation of your pop-up book.
When you submit this assignment, please select the "Create" tab. Type the four key elements that make up a biography and describe how you will use the elements in your project.
Plagiarism & Citing Sources
Open Clever and then select BrainPop. Open the Biography Assignment Part 2.
You have been assigned four different BrainPop video lessons (Biography, Research, Plagiarism, Citations). Today, you will focus on the final two assigned videos (Plagiarism and Citing Sources).
After you watch the videos and take the quizzes, please post a comment in the discussion that details three specific things you learned about avoiding plagiarism and citing sources.