DPL - Lynch ES - Biographies

Lynch ES: 5th Grade Biography Project

Books
Browse the biographies at the Redmond Public Library or search the online catalog for your subject.


	Exploration Lomask, Milton. Presents biographical sketches of twenty-five significant individuals in the history of world exploration, arranged alphabetically from Roald Amundsen to Amerigo Vespucci.

	Great Lives : Invention and technology Lomask, Milton. Brief life stories of twenty-seven persons whose inventions or discoveries have altered the environment to a marked degree. Includes a list of important dates in the history of invention and technology.

	Human culture Weitzman, David, 1936- Presents biographical profiles of twenty-eight anthropologists and archaeologists, including Jane Goodall, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Leakey.

	Human rights Jacobs, William Jay. Biographical portraits of twenty-nine individuals who fought for human rights, from Roger Williams and Thomas Paine to Eleanor Roosevelt and Martin Luther King.

	Medicine Curtis, Robert H. Short biographies of more than thirty men and women who excelled in the field of medical science. Includes Hippocrates, Harvey, Ehrlich, Roentgen, Blackwell, Freud, and Salk.

	Painting Glubok, Shirley. A collection of biographical sketches of European and American painters from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Library Online Resources - www.deschuteslibrary.org/onlineresources
Accessible to everyone at the Redmond Public Library, or from the internet anywhere with your library card number and PIN.

Junior Reference Collection

Covers what you need to know for homework in history, literature, science, social studies, and more.

Student Resources in Context

Offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, Student Resources in Context provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts.

World Book Online Info Finder Biographies

World Book Student's Biography Center includes thousands of biographies on a wide variety of topics. Start by selecting from one or more categories, choose from our highlighted topics, or search by name.

Kids InfoBits

A database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5.

Websites

The MY HERO project
myhero.com/go/search/

The Presidents at whitehouse.gov
www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/

Archiving Early America
www.earlyamerica.com/lives/

PBS Biographies and Profiles
www.pbs.org/topics/history/biographies/

Exploration and Settlement
www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/es_contents.html

Women in History
www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/figures.htm

Cowgirls on the Web
www.cowgirls.com/dream/cowgals/index.htm

More Biography Sites from Multnomah County Library
www.multcolib.org/homework/biohc.html

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