Congratulations to our 3rd grade class and teachers for all the hard work they put into making the Live Wax Museum a hit! A lot of effort went into this project, with months of preparation and using reliable sources like the Who Was book series for research. The students gained valuable experience and knowledge from the project.
Thank you to all parents and students who made our Museum Night successful.
3rd and 4th grade team
Colorado State Standards that were met with this amazing project:
3rd Grade Wax Museum Standards Met
Social Studies Standards
Prepared Graduates
1. Understand the nature of historical knowledge as a process of inquiry that examines and analyzes how history is viewed, constructed, and interpreted.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Compare primary and secondary sources when explaining the past.
Evidence Outcomes Students Can:
a. Compare primary sources with works of fiction about the same topic. b. Use a variety of primary sources such as artifacts, pictures, and documents, to help determine factual information about historical events. c. Compare information from multiple sources recounting the same event.
Prepared Graduates:
2. Analyze historical time periods and patterns of continuity and change, through multiple perspectives, within and among cultures and societies.
Grade Level Expectation:
2. People in the past influence the development and interaction of different communities or regions.
Evidence Outcomes Students Can:
b. Give examples of people, events, and developments that brought important changes to a community or region. c. Describe the history, interaction, and contribution of the various peoples and cultures that have lived in or migrated to a community or region and how that migration has influenced change and development.
Reading, Writing, and Communicating Standards
Prepared Graduates:
2. Deliver effective oral presentations for varied audiences and varied purposes.
Grade Level Expectation:
2. Communicate using appropriate language in informal and formal situations.
Evidence Outcomes Students Can:
a. Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace. (CCSS: SL.3.4) c. Speak clearly, using appropriate volume and pitch for the purpose and audience. d. Select and organize ideas sequentially or around major points of information that relate to the formality of the audience. f. Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. (CCSS: SL.3.6)
Prepared Graduates:
3. Read a wide range of literary texts to build knowledge and to better understand the human experience.
Grade Level Expectation: 1. Apply strategies to fluently read and comprehend various literary texts.
Evidence Outcomes Students Can:
a. Use Key Ideas and Details to: iii. Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. (CCSS: RL.3.2) iv. Summarize central ideas and important details from a text. * v. Describe and draw inferences about the elements of plot, character, and setting in literary pieces, poems, and plays.
Prepared Graduates:
4. Read a wide range of informational texts to build knowledge and to better understand the human experience.
Grade Level Expectation:
2. Apply strategies to fluently read and comprehend various informational texts.
Evidence Outcomes Students Can:
a. Use Key Ideas and Details to: iv. Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. (CCSS: RI.3.3) *
Prepared Graduates:
7. Craft informational/explanatory texts using techniques specific to the genre.
Grade Level Expectation:
2. Write informative/explanatory texts developed with facts, definitions, and details, ending with a related concluding statement.
Evidence Outcomes Students Can:
b. Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details. (CCSS: W.3.2b) d. Provide a concluding statement or section. (CCSS: W.3.2d)
Prepared Graduates:
8. Craft narratives using techniques specific to the genre.
Grade Level Expectation:
3. Write real or imagined narratives that use descriptive details, have a clear sequence of events, and provide closure.
Evidence Outcomes Students Can:
a. Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. (CCSS: W.3.3a) b. Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations. (CCSS: W.3.3b)
Prepared Graduates:
10. Gather information from a variety of sources; analyze and evaluate its quality and relevance; and use it ethically to answer complex questions.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Gather, interpret, and communicate information discovered during short research projects.
Evidence Outcomes Students Can:
a. Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic. (CCSS: W.3.7) b. Interpret and communicate the information learned by developing a brief summary with supporting details. c. Develop supporting visual information (for example: charts, maps, illustrations, models). d. Present a brief report of the research findings to an audience. e. Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories. (CCSS: W.3.8)
