Design-a-Supehero

Look! There in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's your newest creative project! Need a way to make any unit super? This project is here to save the day. Allow students to demonstrate their knowledge by designing a superhero based on a historical figure, a literary character, or their own original idea. Let their creativity soar up, up, and away!

 This download comes with three different variants:

• History: Design a superhero based on a historical figure
• Language Arts: Design a superhero based on a literary character
• Art: Design an original superhero

Two different hero templates (one male and one female) ask students to design the following elements of a superhero:

• The hero's costume
• Three superpowers that the hero has
• Three super items the hero uses
• An arch-nemesis or a sidekick for the hero
• The hero's secret lair

 This 8-page download comes with the following materials:

• A male superhero template
• A female superhero template
• Three sets of instructions: One with instructions for basing a superhero on a historical figure or literary character, one with instructions for creating an original superhero based on a big idea, and one with instructions connecting superheroes to heroes from Greek mythology
• Two student examples (one based on a historical figure and one on a literary character)