History Comes to Life

I just loved Loved LOVED the living history museum that we did.  Yes, I was very nervous and wasn't sure about my performance and people come around to see me, but I learned so much.  I enjoyed even taking on the role as "Louisa May Alcott" and visiting others and their characters.  There were so many historical figures that I had never heard of and if I had, I totally did not know even half of the importance about them, or I totally had their story wrong.  Coming from a system where Social Studies was made up of reading for 15 minutes and answering questions for 15 minutes and that was Social Studies for the day/week, I sure learned a whole lot.  This will definitely be something I will implement in my classroom, not only for the students to learn about their own historical character, but to learn about their classmates' historical personalities as well.  And, I can guarantee, I will learn something too!