American Heroes—SNAPSHOT Biography Library Lesson Grade Level: 3 Benchmarks: finding information, using TOC and Index, using a time line, reading nonfiction, reading informational text, American Heroes. Materials: • 6 computers • Library presentation cart (dataprojector and document camera) • American Hero Biographies, which include timelines. • Who am I? Snapshot camera copy for each student • Time line chart for each student • Pencils • Glue sticks • Scissors Prior to the lesson, make copies of the camera and staple onto the bottom of each time chart (see attached) Lesson: • Librarian reinforces meaning of biography and what is an accomplishment. • Librarian demonstrates how to use the TOC or the Index to locate timeline in the biographies. • Librarian demonstrates reading the timeline and then completing the required timeline with important accomplishments. • Students select an American Hero, and complete their timeline. Upon completion, students go to computer images and locate a photo of their famous American and cut, paste the photo under the camera. Students will try to guess who is hidden under their classmates snapshot.

AmericanHeroes—SNAPSHOTBiography! LibraryLesson ...€¦SNAPSHOT BIOGRAPHY Student's name: Directions: Use the Table-of-Contents to locate the timeline in your biography book. Complete

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American Heroes—SNAPSHOT Biography Library Lesson

Grade Level: 3 Benchmarks: finding information, using TOC and Index, using a time-‐line, reading non-‐fiction, reading informational text, American Heroes. Materials:

• 6 computers • Library presentation cart (data-‐projector and document camera) • American Hero Biographies, which include time-‐lines. • Who am I? Snapshot camera copy for each student • Time line chart for each student • Pencils • Glue sticks • Scissors

Prior to the lesson, make copies of the camera and staple onto the bottom of each time chart (see attached) Lesson:

• Librarian reinforces meaning of biography and what is an accomplishment.

• Librarian demonstrates how to use the TOC or the Index to locate time-‐line in the biographies.

• Librarian demonstrates reading the time-‐line and then completing the required time-‐line with important accomplishments.

• Students select an American Hero, and complete their time-‐line. Upon completion, students go to computer images and locate a photo of their famous American and cut, paste the photo under the camera. Students will try to guess who is hidden under their classmates snapshot.