Famous person biography project 2nd

Looking for a fun, new research and writing project for your elementary kiddos?

This living wax museum is a great way to tie together reading, writing, social studies and speaking and listening skills all in one fun project.

Second grade students will be creating a poster representing a famous American in history.

Second grade students will be creating a poster representing a famous American in history.

Each spring, Legacy second-graders take on a research project.

Your students will love completing a famous person research project with this interactive biography research lap book project!

Students choose a famous person - an entertainer or historical figure in the past or present - to research and write about.

This is a great biographical research project in which students research a famous American, and then design creative poster boards to help them become the.

I have done this project with second through fourth graders and they have all loved it.

Reading

Start this project off by having your students select what famous figure they want to research, or by assigning them a famous figure.

My ABSOLUTE favorite books for us to conduct our research are the &#;Who Was&#; Series by Jim Gigliotti. They are perfect for on-level/higher second graders, and are most appropriate for third and fourth grade students.

Typically, I will introduce the project, show the students my example, and then briefly introduce all of the famous figures that they can pick from.

I then let them go one by one and pick which person they want to research.

For my second graders, I always have one