Students at Westside Elementary benefitted from experiential learning lessons using a green screen and historical era costumes. These materials were used to incorporate artistic elements of drama, the tableau, within the social studies curriculum. Through the implementation of this project students increased their overall understanding of history through active engagement with the content material. Students were required to choose the background image, determine the speech for the character to say in the speech bubble, and figure out what poses would convey the historical event. Because of these additional elements to the lessons, students were required to dig deeper into the text to determine how they were going to portray the specific historical event.