2nd grade biography project ideas

Biography bags are a great interdisciplinary project based learning artifact! Check out this post about how to get started!

Informational writing is a big part of 2nd grade. It's one of the types of text that your students will be expected to confidently read and write by the end of the year. There are a lot of ways to introduce informational writing but one of my favorites is with 2nd grade biography writing! Read this post to find out how to teach a super fun biography writing unit!

This Biography Report that can be used for any historical person. It is great for a social studies biography unit or reading informational writing and research unit. It includes five different report options, lap book, interactive notebook, and construction paper person. Each option has a variety of pages from which to pick and choose. #biographyreport #socialstudies #secondgradesocialstudies #thirdgradesocialstudies #biographies #elementarybiography #elementarysocialstudies

Great blog post with tips on teaching biography! Biography anchor charts, great list of resources for student research, biography writing leads, and more! #teachingbiography #biographyresearch #biographywriting #biographyproject #thirdgrade #fourthgrade #fifthgrade #teachertrap

Do you teach about biographies? Last week we used the anchor chart above to introduce what a biography is (…isn’t George cute?) I saw him originally at Apples, Crayons, and Caffeine. We brainstormed the things we thought a biography is, what’s included, and the questions it might answer. We read about Tomás Rivera in our reading series and also did a mini-unit on biographies and autobiographies.

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Want to organize a Wax Museum Biography Research Project with your 3rd - 6th grade students? This post will help teachers create a step by step plan to organize this highlight of the year event which integrates social studies and writing! Super engaging for students and a positive experience for parents, as well as the whole school community! #waxmuseum #3rdgradewaxmuseum #4thgradewaxmusuem #5thgradewaxmuseum #6thgradewaxmuseum #3rdgradesocialstudies #4thgradesocialstudies…

Part 4 The students have been working hard reading and researching about their person of choice! They are learning so much and so excited! One little girl ran up to me and said, "Did you know that Clara Barton was born on Christmas Day! I need to put this on the timeline!" It's important to model how to write complete sentences from their recording sheets. If you do not take time to do this students will copy word for word from their recording sheets. This will mean they will either copy it…

Biography crafts engage students in the lives of famous people. They'll love creating foldables, social media posts & biography cubes!

Is your 5th grader going to be in a Living History Museum at school? Here are 30 wax museum project ideas for boys and girls!