finding and using information from books
 : Famous People
Approach: Station
732k
Resources: Oxford Children's Pocket Book of Knowledge (1992); timer — set by teacher to 9 minutes.

Questions / instructions:
You have 9 minutes for this task — start the timer now.

A new set of cards is being made for a breakfast cereal. There are 5 cards with people's names and pictures on them. On each card write down two things:

 

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responses
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1. The year the person was born.

2. Something for which the person is famous.

Use the Oxford Children's Pocket Book of Knowledge to help you.

Ghandi: year
fame
80
64

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Pasteur: year
fame
80
46
Magellan: year
fame
80
70
Curie: year
fame
71
69
Galileo: year
fame
72
58

Commentary:
Year 8 students had high levels of success in finding the year of birth. For some of the people looked up, they were less successful in distinguishing the source of their fame from less important details (eg. Ghandi was a lawyer).



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