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VIDEO: Taylors Elementary Students Make History Come Alive

This week, Taylors Elementary 5th grade students are presenting their new "wax museum" projects, which requires the children to portray famous people from the past.

This week at Taylors Elementary School, 5th grade students are presenting a different kind of class project that represents the culmination of more than two months of work and preparation.

Lindsey Weeks, social studies teacher at Taylors, said the 5th-graders have been working on a "wax museum" project since January. The project requires the students to pick any notable individual from the 1920's and depression-era and research them. The children were required to turn in a research paper on their subjects, as well as put together a costume resembling the garb worn by their historic figures so that they may portray them.

From Babe Ruth, to Adolf Hitler, to Al Capone, to Eleanor Roosevelt - these characters are coming alive this week as the 5th grade students at Taylors Elementary are conducting a "wax museum" presentation in which they stand frozen at attention until passersby in the media center (parents, visitors and younger classes from other grades) press a "button" to launch the presenters into an informative monologue about the historic figures they represent.

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Weeks said this was the first school year in which such a project has been attempted at Taylors. It's also the first year Taylors has implemented departmentalization, in which teachers are vested with responsibility of teaching one subject and rotating to different classrooms, which allows for more intensive exploration into the subject matter, such as this inaugural project.

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