Wax museum ideas

If you've always wanted to host a Biography Wax Museum for your students and parents, this is the ultimate step by step blog post to get your started!

Live wax museum

Want to organize a Wax Museum Biography Research Project with your 3rd - 6th grade students? This post will help teachers create a step by step plan to organize this highlight of the year event which integrates social studies and writing! Super engaging for students and a positive experience for parents, as well as the whole school community! #waxmuseum #3rdgradewaxmuseum #4thgradewaxmusuem #5thgradewaxmuseum #6thgradewaxmuseum #3rdgradesocialstudies #4thgradesocialstudies…

It’s not just how darn cute the kids look, or how much the parents oooh and ahhh over what a great event it is, (we all need those pats on the back) but it’s the fact that I know how much the kids have gotten out of this project and how hard they’ve worked to […]

Each year as part of our Classical Conversation’s Essentials Program, the kids research and write about a famous person of the …

How to host a living wax museum at your school! We all have research standards, writing standards, and speaking/listening standards that can be taken care of with this project. Having students write speeches and present in front of an audience is not only meeting standards but it also an important life skill.

Wax museum presentation board - Sacagawea

Wax museum

My son's 7th grade Steve Irwin wax museum trifold project board.

Every year all of our 5th graders participate in our school's Wax Museum program. It is seriously one of the highlights of the entire school year! Here's a run down of how things work: -Students choose a biography on a famous American. -They read the book and complete the American Hero book report. -They design a poster, create a costume, and memorize information about their hero. -For the Wax Museum, the students bring all their stuff and set up in the gym. -We invite our school, parents…

Dolly Parton biography school project

Bill Gates Living Wax Museum Project

I know I'm a little late on the draw ... but these last few weeks always catch up with me TOO FAST! Here is the update on our 5th grade Early American Wax Museum! The kiddos did an absolutely OUTSTANDING job at the Wax Museum. This teacher is SO proud! If you haven't read any previous blogs about what this is all about, the kids pick someone that we have studied this year from Early America and create a research paper {and Biography poster} on them. We then spend a LOT of time practicing and…

Abraham Lincoln. Wax museum school project.