January 17, 2007 10:08 AM
Homeschool biography fair - ideas needed
From a reader:
Help!!! Our homeschool group is planning a biography fair. I need ideas of what I should do? Creative ideas. Display ideas. Individual ideas..Help...
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When I taught in public school, we had the children read a biography and then come up with a summary of what the person did. They then memorized this and dressed up like the person. On the day of the fair, the children were part of a "Wax Museum" and visitors could press a red sticker on their hand to hear all about who they were and what they did. Hope that helps!
Posted by: Emma | January 17, 2007 2:33 PM
I just read the previous comment and our school had one of these too. They were dressed up like their character. They had to create a "button" on themselves for others to push and then they had a brief statement they said about themselves "in character" as if they were the actual person. It was pretty neat and I'll have to say that some got VERY creative.
Posted by: Angie | January 17, 2007 9:47 PM
I like big posterboard displays. You could make some like a big scrapbook page or something personal looking like that to draw the viewer in.
Posted by: Honey | January 18, 2007 12:10 AM
We've had several homeschool geography fairs and each entrant has done a magnificent job of it. I would think a biography fair could be very similar. Your students could dress in the costume of the era, draw maps of where the person was from, make replicas of his/her birthplace or inventions, buildings or whatever, you could display various books by an author or books about the person you're studying. If this was an inventor or scientist, you could do a display board of all the various inventions/discoveries or have several on your display table. You could even give out a creative, homemade bookmark about your person to all the visitors to your table.
Above all, have fun as you learn.
Posted by: Jody | January 18, 2007 12:59 AM
