Open House Projects Part 1

Hello Followers! Earlier this month, we had Open House! My students and I crammed in a couple of cute projects in the tiny window between state testing and Open House, so our classroom would look good! The first one I'm going to share was for my American History class. First, the students researched someone connected with the creation of the Constitution and made a timeline of their life. The first event was their birth and the last event was their death and the students found two significant life events to put in the middle. We folded construction paper in half and cut four strips on one side to make a timeline. On the front of the strips, the students wrote the date and drew a picture of the event. When you lift the flap, you see a short summary of the event. I then had the students make "name tags" for the person, which I stapled above. I made my students an example of Johnny Depp's life, as seen below:

Below is our completed bulletin board (with their biography projects from January). Although this was a fairly simple project, it gave the students a chance to do research and made our bulletin boards a little more 3D.

Here is a link to the FREE research template I created and had my students use for this project!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Timeline-Project-Graphic-Organizer-676839

I will be posting about our math project next!