Huge Success!

Our Wax Museum was a HUGE success!  Everyone remembered their speeches and had so much fun!  My second graders LOVED this project and rocked the house with their presentations during the museum! I used Angela Nickerson's Wax Museum Biographies: Bringing Life to History packet as a jumping off point for our informational writing unit.  Students chose a historical figure to research after doing a Biography Scavenger Hunt using PebbleGo.  From there they researched their famous persons childhood, fame, interesting facts and personal qualities.  We filled out facebook pages for our historical figures, compared and contrasted them to ourselves and answered our 4 guiding questions: What makes a person famous? How are famous people alike/different than myself? What kinds of personal qualities do famous people have? Why is it important to remember and understand people in history? 

To ensure students were ready to give their speeches they video taped each with their iPads the day before the museum presentation.  This was a BIG EYE OPENER for some of our researchers.   They talked with their partners about what they could do to make their presentations better and practiced, practiced, practiced! 

Their hard work and perseverance paid off!  

Ben Franklin and guests

Amelia Earhart

Babe Didrickson Zaharias

Muhammad Ali

Squanto

Abe Lincoln and guests

George Washington

Jacqueline Kennedy

Theordore Roosevelt

Neil Armstrong

Guests

Ben Franklin and guests

Abe Lincoln

Albert Einstein

Celebrating our sweet success!