In both the MY HERO Living Museum and the
MY HERO Museum programs, students invite other classrooms, their families
and community members to participate. For each of these activities,
invitations could be designed and delivered to the invited classes or
persons. (Don't forget your school support staff: custodians, lunch
helpers, aids, office staff and administrators.) The invitation could
describe the focus of their MY HERO project, along with an invitation
to view the www.myhero.com
Website.
Activity: MY HERO "Living Museum":
Each student plays the role of a different
hero in the subject area being studied. The students research their
heroes to discover something about his/her life and what elevated that
person to the hero designation. The students write a short (one to three
minute) biography of their heroes for presentation in the "Living
Museum" program. Presentation of the MY HERO Living Museum can
be held in a large multipurpose room. Each actor, dressed to represent
his/her hero, will have a separate station. The station will also have
some depiction of the deeds of that hero. Separate stations are set
up around the sides of the room as well as a section in the middle to
accommodate traffic flow to and from each station. As visitors enter
the room, they are given a packet of tickets. Each station has a "ticket
container." As people visit each station, they put a ticket into
the container. Then, the actor comes alive and makes his/her presentation.
The visitors listen and then move on to another station. The hero/actor
returns to his/her statue or frozen state until another visitor or group
places a ticket in the container. If presented to other classes in school,
it is wise to set a time limit for each class to visit. Other teachers
and adults are needed to help direct traffic flow. Videotapes of the
presentations to view afterwards add even more interest. Local and school
newspapers can highlight the event.
Activity: MY HERO Museum:
This is an opportunity to display the MY HERO works
of all the students. Decide what exhibits or interest centers you
will include. You may also want to include a technology exhibit using
computers with Internet access, so students can take visitors on a
tour of www.myhero.com. Visitors can also sign the MY HERO Guestbook.
The displays could be "stand-alone" stations, or a student
could stand by each display station to answer questions.
Videotapes or still pictures of all of the displays
to view afterwards add interest. Copies of pictures could be used
to create bulletin boards, or sent to local and school newspapers.
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