Bringing History to Life through Photoshop

I have been teaching a unit on symbols of our government to my first graders for the past two years. It is a dry topic for them and I had been thinking about a way I could make it more interesting. When I found out about this assignment, I thought I had the perfect idea! What better way to get my students involved in the unit than to have them actually be placed into scenes with some of the symbols. First graders are egocentric by nature and anything that involves them personally is so much more interesting to them! So, my idea is to create a short video story via Photostory or Powerpoint using these photos, as well as some other important information about the symbols. So far, I have four symbols and 12 students featured. I'd like to get the other 5 students in somewhere, but did not have any full-body photos of them in my archives. So I am posting all four that I have done so far. Stay tuned to find out if this helped to make them more interested in the unit...