Description
Get your students excited about research projects with this fun and engaging Wax Museum Project. Perfect for a Biography, Inventor, Scientist, etc. Wax Museum with a Research Report template! Students will create a Living History Wax Museum and write a research paper guided by rubrics while building their research & writing skills.
This engaging and ready-to-go project provides excellent support to the history, writing, and literacy curriculum to engage students and motivate them to learn. Tie in Black History Month, Women’s History Month, President’s Day, inventors, and scientists, or create your theme for this wax museum project. Students can write a 5-paragraph research report, or the graphic organizer can be used in place of the report for differentiated instruction. Choose what you want from the Wax Museum Project and then print!
Included in this Editable Wax Museum Project Resource (PDFs, PowerPoints, & Google Slides):
✅ How To Use This Resource (Teaching Notes)
Wax Museum Student Choice Versions: Scene Backdrop/Character Representation/PowerPoint/Tri-Fold
✅ Editable Packet Cover (3 Options)
✅ Editable 4 Pages of Student Requirements / Student Directions (with and without CCSS Listed) & Parent Signature Form
✅ Key Word List
✅ Graphic Organizers (5 Options)
✅ Poster (2 Options)
✅ Character Research Graphic Organizer
✅ Editable Character Research Outline
✅ Editable Last Outline Page with MLA Works Cited, APA Reference, CMS Bibliography Examples
✅ Final Copy Publishing Pages
✅ Character’s Internet Homepage
✅ Speech Outline
✅ Peer Evaluations
✅ Editable Character Research Report Rubric / Wax Museum Rubric
✅ Editable Wax Museum Scene Backdrop / Character Representation / PowerPoint / Trifold Rubrics
✅ Editable Speech Sentence Frames
✅ Editable 3 Alternate Rubrics
✅ Student Choice Vote
✅ Optional Editable Scene Backdrop Version Replacement Pages
✅ Optional Editable Tri-fold or PPT Version Replacement Pages
Graphic Organizer Replacement of Research Report Options:
✅ Optional Editable Differentiated for Diverse Learners Students Choice Version Additional / Replacement Pages
✅ Optional Editable Differentiated Optional Scene Backdrop Version Replacement Pages
✅ Optional Editable Differentiated Optional Tri-Fold or PPT Version Replacement Pages
✅ Blank Checklist Frames
✅ Primary and Secondary Sources PowerPoint: 5 pages of Editable definitions, examples, and a question slide
✅ Teaching Picture Examples: Larger pictures of the character / person representation
✅ Editable Invitations (3 Options)
✅ Editable PPT & Google Slides for Teachers to customize tracker, checklist, directions, Outline, & rubrics
✅ PPT & Google Slides with text boxes for Students to complete organizers, outline, publishing pages, & speech outlines
YOU MUST HAVE POWERPOINT OR GOOGLE SLIDES TO EDIT
Clip art and background cannot be edited.
NOTE: Before purchasing, please make sure you have the correct program for this resource. To edit the files, you should use PowerPoint (newer than 2008) or Google Slides. If you are trying to use a different program, you may run into various formatting issues that I won’t be able to help you with. Online versions of PowerPoint do not have the same capabilities as the full version of PowerPoint. If you don’t have access to PowerPoint, check a different computer or consider using the Google Slides version.
*When accessing the Google document in a separate PDF, it will force you to make your own copy on your Google Drive.
Additional resource benefits, classroom ideas, and more information for the Wax Museum Project:
✅ You can choose with or without Common Core State Standards on your requirements page.
✅ There are reference choices for MLA, APA, and CMS formats.
✅ There are student choice, scene backdrop, and tri-fold versions as options for this project.
✅ Great for mixed or leveled classes to give students differentiated instruction.
✅ Student requirements and guidelines are detailed, organized, and completely EDITABLE.
✅ Students know exactly what to research with the outline.
✅ Students will write a 5-paragraph research report.
✅ Gives students a choice for their character representation.
✅ Practical and easy-to-understand rubrics for teachers, parents, and students.
✅ Permission slip to inform parents.
✅ Easy scoring on 10 points each category out of 100 points for the rubrics. Or the rubric totals up to 100 points.
✅ Zip folder contains 3 PDFs, 4 PPTs, and 3 Google Slides
TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tanya W. says, “This is such a cool project. My students are so excited to do all the pieces of this project. Thanks!”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jacob K. says, “My students are LOVING this activity! They enjoy how easy it is to pick out the information they need to research and are getting really involved with their character.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Shelly H. says, “Very thorough! This made planning my wax museum so much easier.“
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Chrissy M. says, “We do this every year in my classroom in school. This is an excellent resource for some of my students who need extra support.“
Supports Common Core Standards (CCSS):
✓ Writing:
ELA-LITERACY.W.2.2, W.2.7, W.2.8, W.3.2, W.3.7, W.3.8, W.4.2, W.4.7, W.4.8, W.5.2, W.5.7, W.5.8.
✓ Speaking & Listening:
ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.4, W.3.5, SL.3.6, SL.4.4, W.4.5, SL.4.6, SL.5.4, W.5.5, SL.5.6.
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