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Major
Integrated Resource (MIR)
Web
Resources
- Writing
with Writers - Biography - students learn how to research and write a
biographical sketch — a story about someone's life that tells a lot
about who that person is or was. Along the way, they receive research and
writing strategies from writers in the field as well as a warm-up exercise
to get them started.
- Famous
Canadians
- The ABC of Famous Canadians
- The
Biography Maker - This web site is like those homework machines we have
been hearing about for many years. It is designed to help you convert facts
into insights, dull and boring information into fascination and magic. It
will help you do a good job, but you must provide some of the "steam"
to make it work well.
- Writing:
Biographies
- These sites offer tips for writing biographies. There are lesson plans,
helpful handouts, rubrics, and examples of biographies written by elementary
students. Includes a video about the writing process.
- Biography
and Timeline Book Report - A lesson plan where rather than doing a "traditional"
research paper, the author Susan Harris has her students select a biography
and have the experience of actually "becoming" the person who they
researched.
- Building
on Biographies - Two online biography resources and 10 ways to teach biography
Web Quests
- Guess
Who's Coming to Dinner? - After being magically transported back in time,
you decide to make the best of it and hold a dinner party and invite some
of the major important people of the time and get to know them better.
- Famous
Canadians
- An inquiry based webquest
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