Digital Autobiographies

Send this "About Me" PowerPoint template home with your students to bring and present to class during the first week of school. Step-by-step instructions to create a simple autobiography is laid out withing six slides. Tip: If you would...

Have young writers compose stories that add detail to the moments captured in personal photographs and create an annotated photo album. Rather than sending every member of the class home for the weekend with a digital camera, you might...

Students create an autobiography. In this autobiography lesson, students create a digital autobiography using photographs and captions about their lives. Students will publish their autobiography on the class blog page, as well as...

Third graders often complete projects in which they share information about themselves. This lesson plan, in which they take home digital cameras and chronicle their daily life, comes with worksheets and other suggestions to make it a...

Explore the personal histories of your third graders by creating timelines. Youngsters review five events that had an important impact on their lives. They then create a timeline on their computers using multi-media software and narrate...

Are we really all that different from people in the past? First, learners of all ages write an autobiographical poem. Then, they research the lives of historical figures. They use the same format that they used to write their own poem to...

Third graders create an autobiography on the computer. They write, design and illustrate using word processing and graphic tools on the computer.

Design a pictorial autobiography using the letters of the alphabet. For each letter, writers select visual images that represent life events and interests. Younger writers add words or sentences of explanation while older writers narrate...

Students create a classroom binder to give substitutes and visitors to the classroom an introduction to themselves. They take, save and download digital pictures of themselves and write and type a paragraph to accompany each picture.

Third graders listen to a read aloud of Tomie de Paolo's, The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush and discuss what they discover about Native American culture. They view Native American pictographs at a website before designing their own...