Living Histoy Museum

Yesterday we started the Living History Museum.  I enjoyed it so much! I think this is wonderful activity for younger children if there are some boundaries.  I think this would be a several week process.  I think the children need opportunity in class to study a historical figure.  I also think the teacher needs to give them things to focus about their historical figure; good facts. For example, birth, death, cause of death, what made the person historical, what did he or she do to make a stand.  I also think that the children must make any costumes by themselves without spending any money.  I don't think it is fair when parents take over and act like it is a "fashion show."  I would be more concerned with the information that the children provide and that they learned something, rather than the outfit.  I learned a lot about Florence Harding, things I probably would never learned without this experience.