Showing posts with label wax museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wax museum. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Wax Museum Proejct Teaches Research and Presentation Skills



The fourth graders have been busy over the last weeks researching a historic figure and developing a biography of that person.



All this research has culminated in the "Wax Museum" held this week. Each child dressed up, brought in a prop or otherwise represented their character.


Characters ranged from sports stars like Alexander Ovechkin, to writer Brian Jacques (above) to historical figures like Elizabeth Blackwell - the first female doctor in America.



Along the way, the fourth grade learned about researching a person, making a presenation and the elements of a biography.