This was such a fun and creative project that I just had to share! At our school we have a "Museum Night" (Open House) where parents go through all the grade levels (6 classes of each, K-5) and see different projects. This year fourth grade decided to do a "Historical Figure Project". This was an "at home project" and we got great feedback from our families. Students chose a historical figure they wanted to research. We tied this learning opportunity to our Expository Writing standards and had the students hand write their papers instead of type them up. This really helped prevent the whole "copy & paste" from the internet papers. After my students chose who they wanted to research I googled images of their historical figure and printed out a head. I sent home a "head" of their historical figure and these instructions {
Click here to download}.
I was so pleased and excited to see the finished products! They turned out FABULOUS!!!!! Our fourth grade team adorned the halls with these incredible historical figures and the writing that went with it. All the visitors just loved what they saw and were really impressed with our awesome 4th graders. Here are some examples of just a few of the wonderful figures:
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| Anne Frank |
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| Steve Jobs |
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| Sitting Bull |
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| Picasso |
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| Even though this isn't a bulletin board you certainly use the idea for a bulletin board. And because of this I have joined Miss B, Busy Bee's Bulletin Board Linky Party! Click on the bee pic above and see other bulletin board ideas! |
What kind of displays or activities do you do for your Open House?
Oh my goodness those turned out great!
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Thanks Miss T! I loved how they turned out too!
DeleteI love these! What a fun project! Thanks for the idea. :)
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You are welcome Heather! This is the first year we tried this and they turned out so good we are going to do them every year.
DeleteWonderfully creative and fun, too! Your students did an outstanding job! Bravo!!
ReplyDeleteThank you Nena! I am proud of my little froggies :)
DeleteThese turned out great! Very creative too!
ReplyDeleteThanks you Stacie! Glad you like them.
DeleteSo you provided the cut-out head for each student?
ReplyDeleteYes, I provided the head for them. I didn't cut it out though. I just handed them a head printed out on a piece of cardstock and the instructions. :)
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Thanks Amber
DeleteI love those!Thanks for sharing the idea.
ReplyDeleteI teach at the junior high level and sadly we don't do much for open house. I usually try to have a few things to show the parents. This last open house (we have one every nine weeks) we had ourRoman projects to display.
Joy
Teaching Living History Blog
I love these. Thanks for sharing the idea. I teach at the junior high level and sadly we don't do much for open house. Although at the last open house (we have four a year) we did display our Roman Civilization Projects
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Teaching Living History Blog
Thanks Joy! I think these would work at the Junior High Level too with a little modification in the instructions. :)
DeleteThese are Great!! I know I would do this if I had my own classroom! Thanks for sharing!
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DeleteThese are so cute. A friend told me about a school that did something similar to this, but they called it Wax Musuem. The students dress like there person and had a presentation board. On their hand they had a dot sticker that said press. The students had to stand perfectly still till someone pressed the bottom and then them would do their presentation. When they were finished, they went back to being still. Sorry to ramble, but your great idea made me think of that great idea, and I thought to share. Great work!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing May! My daughter did the wax museum thing in third grade. It was awesome.
DeleteThis year as a part of our open house, the kids made a treasure map - complete with key and compass rose and then created directions using scale of how to find the "treasure". Although I will make a few changes next year (ie starting earlier) it was successful for the first year.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea Monica! That sounds like fun!
DeleteI love these! Thanks for sharing. I might do something similar with my second graders during our study of biographies. Super cute! I am your newest follower. Come visit my blog sometime! :)
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Hello Mrs Sykes
Thanks for following Jen!
DeleteSo cute! You should link up with my bulletin board linky!
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Thanks Alysia! I just linked up to your linky party :)
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ReplyDeleteOur last book report is a biography report and I have the students dress up as the person. I love how you created something to display!
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For the Love of Fourth Grade
I teach 4th grade and we are getting ready to do our Famous Mississippian Reports. We teach MS History and this will be great for my kiddos! I am giving this as one of my three choices along with a written/typed report. Thanks so much for sharing!!
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