Place students into small groups of two or three using flexible grouping. Read aloud from (or the biography you have selected). As you read, begin to record information on another Bio-Cube Planning Sheet on the projector. Note the information for the first side of the cube. Guide student groups in providing information for Personal Background and Personality Traits by showing them that they may need to use additional resources to complete the Bio-Cube Planning Sheet. Show students , which contains more information than the brief biography on the Scholastic website. Mention that the link is produced by an educational publisher that publishes textbooks and dictionaries, and therefore, it can be considered a reliable source of information. Discuss students' ideas and add the suggested information to the planning sheet on the overhead. Students should work in their groups to complete the remaining sides about J. K. Rowling on their own Bio-Cube Planning Sheets. Students should then transfer the information to the Bio-Cube on their computers and print the Bio-Cube when they are finished. If there are no computers available, students could write it out on their bio-cube sheets. Have students share with their partners an oral summary that is based on the information they have just entered and then share and discuss their Bio-Cube and summary with another group of students. The goal of these discussions is for students to share the information they have learned with other students as well as serve as practice in speaking and listening skills. Students may then choose their own person to research and complete a bio-cube on. Biocube Found at readwritethink.org Bio-Cube includes: time period, and place Person’s name, Personal background Personality traits Significance Obstacles Important quote GRADE LEVEL: 6-8 EMPHASIS/SKILL: Chronological order to key moments TYPE OF IDEA: Activity CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER PURPOSE: Identify key moments, people and places in chronological order Discuss images that people use as symbols for events in their lives. For instance, symbol of birth could be a stork or baby; divorce in family could be a drawing of stick people with a lightning strike down the middle.
Place students into small groups of two or three using flexible grouping. Read aloud from (or the biography you have selected). As you read, begin to record information on another Bio-Cube Planning Sheet on the projector. Note the information for the first side of the cube. Guide student groups in providing information for Personal Background and Personality Traits by showing them that they may need to use additional resources to complete the Bio-Cube Planning Sheet. Show students , which contains more information than the brief biography on the Scholastic website. Mention that the link is produced by an educational publisher that publishes textbooks and dictionaries, and therefore, it can be considered a reliable source of information. Discuss students' ideas and add the suggested information to the planning sheet on the overhead. Students should work in their groups to complete the remaining sides about J. K. Rowling on their own Bio-Cube Planning Sheets. Students should then transfer the information to the Bio-Cube on their computers and print the Bio-Cube when they are finished. If there are no computers available, students could write it out on their bio-cube sheets. Have students share with their partners an oral summary that is based on the information they have just entered and then share and discuss their Bio-Cube and summary with another group of students. The goal of these discussions is for students to share the information they have learned with other students as well as serve as practice in speaking and listening skills. Students may then choose their own person to research and complete a bio-cube on. Biocube Found at readwritethink.org Bio-Cube includes: Person’s name, time period, and place Personal background Personality traits Significance Obstacles Important quote GRADE LEVEL: 6-8 EMPHASIS/SKILL: Chronological order to key moments TYPE OF IDEA: Activity CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER PURPOSE: Identify key moments, people and places in chronological order Discuss images that people use as symbols for events in their lives. For instance, symbol of birth could be a stork or baby; divorce in family could be a drawing of stick people with a lightning strike down the middle.