Driver Middle School Fifth Grade Wax Museum

Driver Middle School (DMS) fifth grade classes held their annual Wax Museum on Thursday, April 28, 2011 as hundreds of families and Marcellus community members turned out to view the unique “still” life displays that lined the hallways of DMS. Each fifth grade student selected a historical figure, conducted research, and wrote a report for the wax museum event. Fifth grade teachers Jill Zoccollilo, Katrina Ercole, Sandy Carey, Laurie Zoanetti, Tracie O’Connor, Donna Costa, Erin Mahoney, and Kate Sheehan facilitated the traditional instructional project that involved elements of social studies, English language arts, and information gathering curricula. The students then dressed in character and posed without a sound or movement for the hour long wax museum event. Families and community members were free to view the historical still life displays as they moved through the first floor hallways of DMS. The characters depicted at the wax museum spanned not only the planet but also the past/present areas of politics, government, invention, art, entertainment, music, athletics, and the military. Among the historical figures depicted at this year’s fifth grade wax museum were Abraham Lincoln, Mozart, Sacajawea, Cleopatra, Hernando Cortes, George Washington, Betsy Ross, John F. Kennedy, John Deere, Clara Barton, John Henry, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Albert Einstein, Amelia Earhart, Louis Armstrong, Lou Gehrig, Mother Teresa, Julia Child, Sir Edmund Hillary, Stan Lee, Bob Dylan, Elvis, Audrey Hepburn, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Jane Goodall, Bobby Fischer, George Lucas, and Temple Grandin.