Due: November 6Th to the Media Center

Biography Bottles

Due: November 6th to the Media Center

Each year I enjoy offering opportunities for the students to be creative in showing their knowledge gained from a book. For the past several years, we have had a Storybook Character Pumpkin Contest. Sadly, last year we had a pumpkin rot in our library and the smell lingered for awhile. Therefore, I have decided to try something different this year.

Students enjoy reading biographies, but this year they haven’t been as popular as in the past. To encourage students to read more biographies, I am providing a contest for the best Bottle Biography.

What is a Bottle Biography?

A Bottle Biography is a bottle made to look like a person from the past or present who has made an important contribution. Students will select a biography from the media center, MyOn, Pebble Go, or a website from the attached list to read. After reading about the person, students will use supplies to create a Bottle Biography. Finally, students will record a few facts about the selected person on an index card that will be displayed in the media center with the bottle.

Supplies:

*A water bottle or 2-liter bottle for the body of your person

*Styrofoam ball or a round object to create a head on top of your bottle

*art supplies (markers, paint, glue, yarn, fabric, construction paper, etc.) to create face, hair, clothing, glasses, etc. (anything your person was known for)

Tips:

Remove any stickers that are on the bottle, Empty & clean your bottle using warm water and soap, Place sand/ pebbles in the bottom of the bottle to help it stand

Websites to find biographies:

http://www.pebblego.com/

(Username: cherokeees, Password: school)

www.biography.com/

www.infoplease.com/people.html

www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0855207.html

Suggestions of important people:

In social studies, each grade level is required by the GPS to cover specific people from history. I am listing these people as suggestions because this activity will provide students with an additional opportunity to connect reading and social studies. Your child does not have to choose one of these people, but I encourage it to increase academic success in the classroom.

1st grade: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Sacagawea, Harriet Tubman, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington Carver

2nd grade: James Oglethorpe, Tomochichi, Mary Musgrove, Sequoyah, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jimmy Carter

3rd grade: Paul Revere, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Mary McLeod Bethune, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall, Lyndon B. Johnson, César Chávez

4th grade: John Cabot, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Juan Ponce de León, Christopher Columbus, Henry Hudson, and Jacques Cartier, King George III, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Benedict Arnold, Patrick Henry, John Adams, Harriet Tubman,

5th grade: Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Wright brothers, George Washington Carver, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt

*This project is completely optional, but prizes will be awarded for each grade level winner.