Grades 2–5
Historical Figure Trading Cards
Make two fold-over trading cards for people from history: a portrait on the front and their stats on the back.
Social studies worksheet · Historical figures
Life Timeline
A 6-stop timeline template for any historical figure, with a year, an event and a little drawing for each stop.
- Grade level
- Grades 2–5
- Time
- About 30 minutes
- Topic
- Historical figures
- Answer key
- Not needed: answers vary
- Kids practice
- Researching people from history, Biography, Cause and effect, Using sources
What kids do
“Find 6 important events in your person’s life. Write the year, what happened and draw it.”
Printed on the sheet:
- Their life, in order
- The most important year in their life was… because…
Teacher tip
Kids need six events, so pick people with good kid-friendly books.
How to use it
- Read a picture book biography aloud before the sheet.
- Model finding facts in a book or a kid-safe website.
- Pair it with a picture book or a short video on the same topic.
Watch for
Kids who copy whole sentences from a book. Teach them to write facts in their own words.
Talk about it
- How is our life different because of them?
- How does this connect to where we live?
Take it further
Hold a wax museum where kids dress up and share facts as their person.
US Letter, prints well in black and white. Free for home and classroom use: print as many copies as you need.
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