Below you will find the step by step directions for our Third Grade Women’s History PBL Project.

We would like to reiterate that YOU will be receiving all of the directions and aspects of the project at once, but your child will be receiving these instructions in SECTIONS as they finish each step.

This project should not be started until all Homeroom reading/projects are completed.

Who Was/Is/Are? Women’s History Month Biography Project

Part 1 First, print out the Bio Project Graphic Organizer and the Bio Outline from your google classroom. Use these questions to help guide your note- taking in your writer’s journal. These notes will be helpful when writing your biography!

Read two chapters of your book per day and write a reflection/summary in google docs and share with your homeroom teacher. Your reflection/ summary should be at least 5 sentences long PER CHAPTER.

Part 2 Now your next step is to research for additional information that may not have been in your book. Please use safe sites online through your student homepage. Please take notes in your writers’ notebook.

Part 3 Once you have finished your book, print all documents in the My Biography Project folder and follow the individual directions for each page. If you have a question when doing this- please email your homeroom teacher. We are planning on turning these pages into a book upon our return along with your biography, so please do each page NEATLY!

Part 4 You are now ready to type your Biography rough draft. Please follow the Biography Outline Steps. These are specific guidelines/order for your report. Each section on the outline should be a paragraph in your biography. Answer each topic in your biography and share it with your homeroom teacher in google docs. Your teacher will then review your draft and set up a one-on-one virtual conference for revising.

After your rough draft has been revised with your teacher, you are now going to make any changes and submit it to your homeroom teacher for a final grade. Remember this biography will be part of your final book project, so please read through your final draft carefully before submitting it. Check over for spelling, punctuation, and grammar mistakes.

Part 5 Now that your biography is written and submitted, it is time to get started on your Google Slide Timeline! Using the timeline in the back of your Who Was/Is/Are books, as well as your additional research, create a google slide for each important date/year in your person’s life. Start off with a title slide! Afterward, each slide should include images and important facts that go along with this date/year in your famous women’s life. All slides should have a background, legibly font styles, and transitions between slides. Feel free to add transitions within each slide as well! (This is not a requirement but this helps make your show more interactive). Once completed please share with your homeroom teacher. This will be part of your presentation when we return to school. Part 6 (Optional) Who Said That? Directions:

• Students will look up quotes and phrases from different influential women from the past and present. • Please choose between 5 and 8 quotes and phrases/women to create a bulletin board to display them. • Add a picture or name bank on your poster for students to match the people to the quotes. • Make it a quiz and reveal the answers with a lift the flap answer key

*Please note this is an optional (but strongly encouraged) enrichment assignment

Here’s an example: Here is a list of SUGGESTIONS for your name/picture bank: Abigail Adams, Amelia Earheart, Anne Frank, Annie Oakley, Clara Barton, Dolly Parton, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, J.K.Rowling, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Maria Tallchief, Marie Curie, Michelle Obama, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria, Rosa Parks, Sacagawea, Sally Ride, Susan B. Anthony, Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Blackwell, Pearl S. Buck, Cleopatra, Mary Baker, Ella Fitzgerald, Indira Ghandi, LaDonna Harris, Grace Hopper, Dolores Huerta, Shirley Jackson, Joan of Arc, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Frida Kahlo, Helen Keller, Maya Lin, Margaret Mead, Mother Theresa, Ellen Ochoa, Sandra Day O'Connor, Esther Peterson, Margaret Sanger, Muriel F. Siebert, Lillian Smith, Margaret Thatcher, Oprah Winfrey, Victoria Woodhull, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Rosalyn Yalow, Golda Meir, Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer, Nelly Sachs.