From Pocahontas to Elvis: Woodland's Living Wax Museum Get 'Activated' [Video]

Woodland School third-grade teacher P.J. Jones observed two students making a connection between historical figures, as they were presenting biographical reports on figures they'd chosen to portray for the school's Living Wax Museum.

"One student was giving his report on John F. Kennedy, when a student who was doing Neil Armstrong realized that because of Kennedy, his character would go to the moon," Jones said. 

Enabling students to find such a direct connection to history studies is certainly one of the desired outcomes of the project, although it doesn't always work as well: a suggestion by Principal Christopher Huss that students portraying John F. Kennedy and Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis get together...let's just say Camelot was not brought back.

Nonetheless, the students often found insights that helped them better grasp the figures and the times they lived in, whether they chose a sports figure, president, inventor...or Elvis.