This week, Education Word offers ten lessons that will get students thinking about their heroes. Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King Jr. were among the names cited most often as national heroes in a recent ABCNews Poll of Adults. Students, teachers, and parents can contribute stories and pictures about their heroes to My Hero, an ongoing online project started in 1994. My Heroes Picture Book Students create a picture book about family members and friends who are heroes. Students complete a work sheet about the characteristics of a hero.
Students write about famous people, family members, and friends who are personal heroes.
Your Favorite Hero Students create a holiday for a hero not currently honored with a holiday. ABC Book Students create an ABC book about heroes in history. Dogs in War Students learn about the roles dogs played in saving lives during wars and create a memorial for the animals. Students participate in a classroom debate about athletes as heroes. In this unique WebQuest for the middle grades, students pretend they are Earthlings on an imaginary planet who have been asked to explain the qualities of a hero and find people on Earth who possess those characteristics.