MY HERO Project Curriculum
Supplementary Activities:
MY HERO Living Museum and MY HERO
Museum
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.
