International Heroes Project
Choose Your Hero
Frida Kahlo: A Mexican woman who survived a serious illness and accident to become a famous painter.
The My Hero Project
Frida Kahlo Foundation
Diego Rivera: A Mexican artist famous for his giant frescoes that often depicted Mexican history or culture
Art Smarts 4 Kids
PBS About the Artist
Cesar Chavez: A Mexican-American leader who helped migrant farmers in the southeastern United States
Enchanted Learning
Ducksters
Biographical Sketch
Roberto Clemente: A famous Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates
Scholastic News
Mr. Nussbaum
Beyond Baseball
Sonia Sotomayor: The first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Time For Kids
The My Hero Project
Antonia Novello
Ellen Ochoa: The first female Hispanic astronaut
The My Hero Project
Helen Keller: A woman born in Alabama who learned to read and speak even though she was deaf
Ducksters
Amelia Earhart
Time For Kids Video
Chief Joseph
Martin Luther King, Jr.: An African American leader who spoke up for racial equality for all people in a time of great resistance
Time For Kids Video
Rosa Parks: An African American woman from Alabama who was imprisoned for refusing to move to the back of a bus so a white man could have her seat
Time For Kids
Ducksters
The My Hero Project
Harriet Tubman: A former slave who went on to lead other African Americans to freedom in the Underground Railroad
Ducksters
Jackie Robinson: The first African American to play Major League Baseball
Ducksters
Frida Kahlo: A Mexican woman who survived a serious illness and accident to become a famous painter.
The My Hero Project
Frida Kahlo Foundation
Diego Rivera: A Mexican artist famous for his giant frescoes that often depicted Mexican history or culture
Art Smarts 4 Kids
PBS About the Artist
Cesar Chavez: A Mexican-American leader who helped migrant farmers in the southeastern United States
Enchanted Learning
Ducksters
Biographical Sketch
Roberto Clemente: A famous Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates
Scholastic News
Mr. Nussbaum
Beyond Baseball
Sonia Sotomayor: The first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Time For Kids
The My Hero Project
Antonia Novello
Ellen Ochoa: The first female Hispanic astronaut
The My Hero Project
Helen Keller: A woman born in Alabama who learned to read and speak even though she was deaf
Ducksters
Amelia Earhart
Time For Kids Video
Chief Joseph
Martin Luther King, Jr.: An African American leader who spoke up for racial equality for all people in a time of great resistance
Time For Kids Video
Rosa Parks: An African American woman from Alabama who was imprisoned for refusing to move to the back of a bus so a white man could have her seat
Time For Kids
Ducksters
The My Hero Project
Harriet Tubman: A former slave who went on to lead other African Americans to freedom in the Underground Railroad
Ducksters
Jackie Robinson: The first African American to play Major League Baseball
Ducksters
Questions for Research
You will have three choices about what your finished product can be. You may use the Storybook Maker app on the iPad to write and record a biography. You may use the Glogster website to create a Glogster to share important biographical information. You may also create a web page to share the biography you write.
Regardless of how you choose to share your information, you must answer the most common biographical questions and include the most important features of a biography. Based on our discussions in class, you must include the following information in your finished product.
Regardless of how you choose to share your information, you must answer the most common biographical questions and include the most important features of a biography. Based on our discussions in class, you must include the following information in your finished product.
- Real photographs: Choose at least 3 from various times in the person's life.
- Birth information: Where and when was the person born? What were his or her parent's names? Did anything significant happen around the time he or she was born?
- Childhood information: Did he or she know what career to choose as a child? What was the person like in school? Did anything happen when he or she was a child that had an influence?
- Education and career: Where did he or she go to school, and what did he or she study? Did anything happen when he or she was an adult that had an influence? What struggles did he or she overcome to be successful?
- Accomplishments: What is so important about this person? Did he or she win any awards or break any records? What would be missing in the world if this person had never been born?
- Death and legacy: If this person is dead, where and when did he or she die? What happened after he or she died? Why do we celebrate this person today? What did he or she leave behind for us?