LOOK: Orchard Hill Students Bring Historic Figures Back to Life With Living Wax Museum
Students dressed up as historic figures like Evis, Princess Diana and Einstein and helped educate their schoolmates by "coming to life" and sharing information about their lives
Who doesn't love transforming into someone else? Now add a little history and you've got yourself a perfect lesson for fifth-grade students at Orchard Hill Intermediate School. The students recently dressed up as well-known figures in history — like Elvis, Einstein and Princess Diana — to make a living wax museum. Students chose a biography to read. And, after reading and taking notes, the students wrote a first-person account of the person's life. On Nov. 16 and 19 the students posed as wax figures around the classroom. Family members and other classes visiting the museum pressed the "button" to make students "come to life" and present their first-person narrative.
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SueOryszak
10:43 am on Thursday, November 22, 2012
We are very blessed to have teachers in North Canton City Schools like Miss Nelson. We need to do everything we can to help retain teachers like her, who provide such quality education to our children. I was lucky enough to visit the Wax Museum and witnessed students full tilt engaged in their work and the entire process and were obviously having a blast too! Thank you, Miss Nelson, and all of … more ›