Swan Song

 Unit:

Biography - Grade 4

Focus:

BCPS Reading Indicators:

Summarize the text.

Determine the theme, whether it is implied or stated directly.

Explain how the author's life and times are influences in his or her work.

Distinguish relevant from irrelevant information contained within texts and identify possible points of confusion.

BCPS Library
Indicator:

Use research skills in order to evaluate, select, record, and reorganize information. (LG-3)

Use reference skills in order to locate information in a variety of sources. (LG-3)

Use critical thinbking skills in order to solve research problems. (LG-3)

Useful sites to aid in evaluating biographies and writing about biographies.

• Evaluating Biographies: a power point presentation
• Biography in Your Classroom
• Building on Biographies:Bringing Real Life Stories into Your Classroom
• The Biography Maker

Useful sites to further explore the trumpeter swans and the migration experiment.

• The Migratory Bird Project
• Trumpeter Swan Migration Project
• Dr Sladen
• The Swans Have Landed
• Trumpeter Swan Migration Experiment in Maryland
• CNN Environment: Fate of the Trumpeter Swan...
• CNN Earth: Yo Yo The Trumpeter Swan is Missing
• Trumpeter Swan facts from the National Zoo