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=4th Grade Living History=

Each year our 4th grade students select a famous historical person from Early America to use as a subject for a research project. After researching, students then write a monologue from the point of view of that person. They present these speeches in class, and then on PTA night they dress up as these famous people and pretend to be statues in the Living History Museum. Each student has a round sticker on one hand. Visitors walk through the museum, and when they touch a student's sticker, the student begins speaking the prepared monologue. As a follow-up activity, students used Blabberize to create a shorter, digital version of their speeches. Students located a public domain photograph or drawing of their characters, recorded their speeches using an iPod, and then used the web 2.0 tool Blabberize to create a fun, online version of their monologues.