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Lists
- Provides a description of the books that provide information on biographies.
- Provides over a dozen sources of biographical information by subject.
- Provides resources compiled by librarians.
- Provides two dozen search engines for biographies.
- Provides a search engine and an alphabetical index (at the bottom of the page. 3-00
- Provides hundreds of biographies, organized by the author's last name.
- Provides biography sources. 3-00
- Provides information on each of the inductees to the Inventors Hall of Fame.
- Provides investment news for the field of technology, especially the Internet. 3-00
- Provides information on each of the Nobel Peace Prize winners, going back to 1901.
- Provides sources of quotations of famous persons. 4-00
- Provides links to biographies on rulers and leaders by topic. 3-00
- Provides biographies of outstanding achievers by sport and alphabetic by last name. 3-00
- Provides one of the most comprehensive sets of biographies of women available on the Net. Arranged alphabetically by field of contribution.
- Provides one of the most comprehensive sets of biographies of women available on the Net. Arranged alphabetically by last name.
- Provides biographies of influential women, by region of the world.
- Provides a Directory and Search Engine related to women.
Materials
- Provides hundreds of pictures of famous writers.
Multimedia
Papers
- Provides pictures and biographies of individuals of high achievement. Many of those included are still living. 5-00
- Provides over 5,000 biographies. Allows searches in English, French, or Spanish. 8-99
- Provides over 5,000 biographies in English and over 10,000 total. Provides a search engine but no directory or alphabetical listing. 4-00
- Provides short biographies of over 100 key figures contributing to the field of anthropology. Alphabetic order by last name. 7-99
- Provides short biographies of K-12 teachers of science and includes suggestions for success that they have discovered. 10-99
- Provides a brief background on how each leader came into a position of power. Also provides quotes and a short biography.
- Describes how to ask helpful questions, using the development of a biography as the example.
- Provides biographies of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
- Provides a biography of Alexander Fleming, known for his contribution to medicine by his discovery of the role of penicillin in fighting bacterial infections. 3-00
- Provides the story on nine women who have won the Nobel Peace Prize, including Mother Teresa.
- Provides biographies of great Indians.
- Provides short biographies of great mathematicians, by date of birth or by last name. 4-00
- Provides biographies of key contributors to western medicine and health over the 20th century. Also lists and describes key contributions to the fields on a timeline. 3-00
- Provides biograpical information on leading contributors to science. Presents the information at three levels of difficulty and by time period.
- Provides biographies of Nobel Laureates and others.
- Provides biographies and other information on Presidents.
- Provides biographies and other information on Presidents.
- Provides biographies of scientists from the fields of medicine and health, physics and astronomy, human behavior, technology, and earth and life sciences. 3-00
- Provides biographies in alphabetical order and by time period. 2-00
- Provides biographies of women writers by name, country, or time period.
- Provides biographies of women writers who are African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic, Chicana, Latina, Indigenous, or Native American.
- Provides biographies of women of distinction, listed in alphabetical order.
- Provides biographies of women of distinction by subject or field.
- Provides illustrated biographies of 100 celebrated women of China.
- Provides biographies of historical women of achievement.
Periodicals
- Choose "Biography" under "Curriculum Area to Search for." Searches for television biography programs appropriate for kids, families or educators and codes by network, grade level, curriculum area, curriculum materials available, special needs and more.
Projects
- Provides guidelines on interviewing a person for writing a life story.
- Provides step by step assistance in writing a biography - or autobiography.
- Cryptograph provides line drawings of a famous people and an encrypted, powerful quotation. Includes two additional categories, People of Color and Daughters of Eve.
- Provices clues about a famous person in history. Follow the clues and guess who it is.