Every year Third-Grade students at Dodge Literacy Magnet create a blast from the past with a panorama of historical figures. The students are part of a “living museum,” where they teach their fellow students about history. 

Each student is assigned to research and represent a particular figure in history, such as Paul Revere, Harriet Tubman, or Walter Cronkite. Each third-grade class represents a different era of history; one class represents the 1700’s, one the 1800’s, and one the 1900’s.

The students stand motionless until someone pushs a “button” on their hand, at which point the student would “come to life” and talk about the life of the historical figure, and what that person did for history. The living museum is the end result of two months of research.

March 2008, A Dodge student dresses as Paul Revere for his living museum project. Photo by Josh Bolen