Sometimes schools get really creative when they teach kids about history. Mitch & Jo's school recently held a "wax museum", done by the 5th grade. Each student was assigned a historical figure, they had to research that person, write a report and make a poster about that individual. Then they dressed up as that person, and had a huge wax museum. They set up in the gymnasium, all dressed up in front of their posters with a "button" that people pushed. The student then stood and gave 30 seconds of information in the first person about their historical figure. Mitchell was Albert Einstein. All decked out with a lab coat kindly "donated" for a couple of days from the hospital, with hair standing on end and sprayed white, Mitchell looked the part. I was really impressed with the students and all the different historical people they got to be for the day.
Here's Mitchell with his friend Logen who lives next door.
I learned a lot about historical figures and was really proud of those kids, it was really scary to stand up in front of strangers over and over again. The whole museum took about an hour to go through and there were tons of people there.
Sometimes schools get really creative when they teach kids about history. Mitch & Jo's school recently held a "wax museum", done by the 5th grade. Each student was assigned a historical figure, they had to research that person, write a report and make a poster about that individual. Then they dressed up as that person, and had a huge wax museum. They set up in the gymnasium, all dressed up in front of their posters with a "button" that people pushed. The student then stood and gave 30 seconds of information in the first person about their historical figure. Mitchell was Albert Einstein. All decked out with a lab coat kindly "donated" for a couple of days from the hospital, with hair standing on end and sprayed white, Mitchell looked the part. I was really impressed with the students and all the different historical people they got to be for the day.
Here's Mitchell with his friend Logen who lives next door.
I learned a lot about historical figures and was really proud of those kids, it was really scary to stand up in front of strangers over and over again. The whole museum took about an hour to go through and there were tons of people there.
