Printable Wax Museum Research Project - Rubric & Graphic Organizer Templates 3-5

Get your students excited about research reports with this fun and engaging Biography Research project! Students will create a living history wax museum and write a research paper while building their research & writing skills.

This engaging and ready-to-go project provides excellent support to the history, writing, and literacy curriculum to engage students and motivate students for learning. This resource is adaptable to use for black history, women's history, President's Day, inventors, or apply your own theme for a wax museum. Students can write a 5 paragraph research report or the research graphic organizer can be used in place of the report for differentiated instruction. Choose what you want and then print!

Included in this resource:

✅ How I Use This Resource (Teaching Notes)

Wax Museum Student Choice Version: Scene Backdrop/Character Representation/PowerPoint/Tri-fold

✅ Packet Cover

✅ 4 Pages of Student Requirements / Student Directions (with and without CCSS Listed) & Parent Signature Form

✅ Key Word List

✅ Graphic Organizers

✅ Poster

✅ Character Research Outline

✅ Last Outline Page with MLA Works Cited, APA Reference, CMS Bibliography Examples

✅ Character’s Internet Homepage

✅ Speech Outline

✅ Peer Evaluations

✅ Character Research Report Rubric / Wax Museum Rubric

✅ Wax Museum Scene Backdrop / Character Representation / PowerPoint / Trifold Rubrics

✅ 3 Alternate Rubrics

✅ Student Choice Vote

✅ Optional Scene Backdrop Version Replacement Pages

✅ Optional Tri-fold or PPT Version Replacement Pages

✅ Differentiated for Diverse Learners Students Choice Version Additional / Replacement Pages

✅ Differentiated Optional Scene Backdrop Version Replacement Pages

✅ Differentiated Optional Tri-fold or PPT Version Replacement Pages

Primary and Secondary Sources PowerPoint

✅ 5 pages of Editable definitions, examples, and a question slide

Teaching Picture Examples

✅ Larger pictures of the character/person representation

YOU MUST HAVE POWERPOINT TO EDIT

Clip art and background cannot be edited.

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Additional resource benefits, classroom ideas, and more information:

✅ Choose with or without Common Core State Standards on your requirements page.

✅ There are reference choices for MLA, APA, and CMS formats.

✅ There are student choice, scene backdrop, and tri-fold versions as options for this project.

✅ Great for mixed or leveled classes to give students differentiated instruction.

✅ Requirements and guidelines are detailed and organized.

✅ Students know exactly what to research with the outline.

✅ Students will write a 5 paragraph research report.

✅ Gives students a choice for their character representation.

✅ Practical and easy to understand rubrics for teachers, parents, and students.

✅ Permission slip to inform parents.

✅ Easy scoring on a 10 points each category out of 100 points for the rubrics. Or the rubric totals up to 100 points.

✅ Zip folder contains 2 PDFs, 2 PPTs, and 2 PPTXs.

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tanya W. says, "This is such a cool project. My students are so excited to do all the pieces of this project. Thanks!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jacob K. says, "My students are LOVING this activity! They enjoy how easy it is to pick out the information they need to research and are getting really involved with their character."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Shelly H. says, "Very thorough!  This made planning my wax museum so much easier."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Chrissy M. says, "We do this every year in my classroom in school. This is an excellent resource for some of my students who need extra support."

Supports Common Core Standards (CCSS):

✓ Writing:

ELA-LITERACY.W.2.2, W.2.7, W.2.8, W.3.2, W.3.7, W.3.8, W.4.2, W.4.7, W.4.8, W.5.2, W.5.7, W.5.8.

✓ Speaking & Listening:

ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.4, W.3.5, SL.3.6, SL.4.4, W.4.5, SL.4.6, SL.5.4, W.5.5, SL.5.6.

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There is an Editable version available!

Editable Wax Museum Biography Research 3-5 CCSS Aligned - Differentiated Options

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