Time in a bottle - students research favorite historical figures and create their likeness

Circleville Elementary School fifth-grade students have a great project to end their elementary school careers – the bottle biographies!

Two soda bottles decorated to look like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln

A soda bottle decorated as a woman with an olympic medal around her neck.

A group of six fifth-grade students hold their soda bottles decorated as famous people. They are standing with their teacher in the center.

Students in all three fifth grades choose someone they want to learn more about. Some choose athletes or politicians; some contemporary musicians and others legendary ones. Geniuses, founding fathers, supreme court justices, heroes and she-roes! The students do their research and write a report or create a poster. They also create a model of their chosen person using a two-liter soda bottle and other materials. The results are amazing!

A soda bottle decorated to look like Albert Einstein with white pipe cleaners sticking up for his hair.

A soda bottle decorated as a singer with a microphone in front.

A soda bottle decorated to look like martin luther king at a podium that says I have a dream

A soda bottle decorated as ben franklin.

A large group of fifth-grade students holding their soda bottles decorated as famous people.

Many build props, like Ariana Grande’s mic or Mozart’s piano. They show Martin Luther King at a podium or Olympian Simone Biles with her gold medal around her neck. All so intricately detailed. The students enjoy the project while learning so much about someone they admire from history.

A large group of fifth-grade students holding their decorated soda bottles.

Great job to all!

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Time in a bottle – students research favorite historical figures and create their likeness