May 20, 2026 by Staff Reports
Tate’s School’s third-graders recently took living history to a whole new level of learning.
They held the Wax Museum, which is a culminating inquiry-based project, allowing students to showcase the lessons they have learned throughout the school year, according to Tracey Van Hook, Tate School director of resources.
“The students chose a historical figure from the past, researched and created a timeline of that person’s life, wrote an expository paper and a monologue,” Van Hook said. “Students then created a display board, added a costume and acted as though they were that person.
“Each student was frozen in position, like a wax statue, until a button was pushed,” she said. “Then, they presented the personal story of their selected famous persons in character.
“Students could choose to be a historian, a president, an inventor or an explorer, just to name a few categories,” Van Hook said.
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