Who Might Have Owned This?

In this imaginative writing activity, students analyze museum-style notes about mysterious objects and use the evidence to infer possible owners. Each task includes two parts: writing a detailed object description and creating a short character sketch about who might have possessed it. This exercise integrates creative storytelling with descriptive reasoning, encouraging students to connect material details to personal narratives.

Curriculum Skills Explored

English Language Arts – Descriptive and Narrative Writing

English Language Arts – Inference and Character Analysis

English Language Arts – Evidence-Based Interpretation

Social Studies – Historical Imagination and Artifact Context

This worksheet is part of our Describing Objects and Artifacts collection.