Week of February 5, 2018

Friday News

Biography Project

Students can be thinking about who they'd like to research this weekend. We will be begin research on Monday. Here is a list of people that students have researched in the past and have enjoyed learning about. Students are not limited to names on this list. However, it is helpful if they can find ample information about this person. 

Research Project Ideas with a connection to Iowa

Buffalo Bill Cody 

Herbert Hoover
Jack Trice
Nile Kinnick 
John Wayne
Grant Wood 
Kurt Warner 
Zach Johnson 
Norman Borlaug 
Dan Gable
 Johnny Carson
Abigail Van Buren 
Lolo Jones 
Carrie Chapman Catt
 Shawn Johnson
Ola Babcock Miller
Kate Shelley 
Lou Henry Hoover
Amelia Earhart
 Mamie Eisenhower

Other Biography Project Ideas

Babe Ruth
Anne Frank
Jackie Robinson
Rosa Parks
Betsy Ross
Florence Nightingale
Albert Einstein
Thomas Edison
Shirley Temple
Ben Carson
Ole Kirk Christinason
George Washington Carver
Jane Goodall
Steve Irwin
Jacques Cousteau 
Milton Hershey
Bill Gates
Oprah Winfrey
Henry Ford
Ben and Jerry
Coco Chanel
Mia Hamm
Pepper Paire
Hank Aaron
JK Rowling
Laura Ingalls
Jan Brett
Patricia Polacco
Queen Elizabeth
Elanor Roosevelt
Andy Warhol
Georgia O'Keefe
Walt Disney
Frank Lloyd Wright
Annie Oakley
Sally Ride
Neil Armstrong
Helen Keller
Ansel Adams
Davy Crockett
Ruby Bridges

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