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El Education: Along the Charles River
Third grade students at Conservatory Lab Charter School in Brighton, MA, created this illustrated book of poetry as part of a three-month expedition on the Charles River. During this expedition, students learned how the Charles River...
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El Education: First Come the Eggs
First Come the Eggs, a picture book for young readers, was created by 3rd grade students in Rochester, New York. This is a biography of Seth Green, the father of fish hatcheries in America. The research included the study of the life...
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El Education: Insect Cards
These local insect note cards were created by 2nd graders from the Alice B. Beal Elementary Magnet School in Springfield, Massachusetts. The project included field observation and collection, classroom experimentation and research,...
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El Education: Instruction Manual for the Gh Monoscope
This instruction manual for a GH Monoscope was created by 4th grade students. Students created this manual as a way to introduce other students in the school to this new piece of equipment. Although the equipment did come with...
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El Education: Kids Book of Poetry
Students write acrostic name poems, sensory poems, and how-to poems and compile them into a class book of poetry.
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El Education: Kid's Guide to Buffalo & Erie Co. Botanical Gardens
Elementary students at the Enterprise Charter School in Buffalo, New York, created this brochure of their local botanical gardens to be used by other students. Each student selected a specific plant to research, photograph, and write...
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El Education: Lobsters Activity Book
Students work with local experts to learn about lobsters and then create an informational coloring book for children eating with their families at a local seafood restaurant.
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El Education: Our Classroom Teacher Mrs. Wong
Students learn to write and ask interview questions by interviewing their teacher. Students then write and illustrate the answer to each question to create a book about their teacher.
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El Education: The Pond Alphabet Book
Students make observations and collect specimens in a local pond and then create an alphabet field guide to demonstrate what they have learned. Alphabet pages are illustrated with original watercolor paintings.
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El Education: Recipe for Rochester
Students learn about the history of industry in their home town through research, field visits, and a local historian. Students then combine the information they gathered with recipes, illustrations, and digital pictures to create a...
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El Education: The Study of Life Cycles
Students learn about various insects and use original text and illustrations to create a book including information such as habitat, life cycle, diet, behavior, predators, and other interesting facts.
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El Education: Tools for Sailors Ahoy, Mate!
In this lesson students learn about sailing and contribute writing, illustrations, and photographs to a class book containing information about navigation equipment, the Beaufort Scale, knots, and the signal system of flags used by...
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El Education: What Matters to Me
An online book entitled What Matters to Me: In the Hearts and Minds of Elementary School Students by 4th graders at Mary O. Pottenger School in Springfield, Massachusetts. Autobiographical essays and self portraits provide exemplary work...
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El Education: What Snake Am I?
An online book entitled What Snake Am I? by 2nd graders at The Conservatory Lab Charter School in Brighton, Massachusetts. The book contains information about different snakes found around the world. Original writing and illustrations...
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El Education: Frozen Cup Man
This children's book for young readers was created by a third-grade student at New Song Academy in Baltimore, MD. It was part of a project of celebrating local heroes: people who contribute to help the community. The neighborhood in...
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El Education: Recycling
Students find out how many bags of garbage their school produces and work through math processes to create graphs and make projections. Then they share this information with the school and make suggestions about how to decrease the...
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El Education: Stone Tolan House Historical Coloring Book
Students learn about a local historical site through fieldwork, experts, and other sources in order to create an informational coloring book. The coloring book is then produced and made available at the site as an introduction for young...
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El Education: Flower City Almanac
3rd grade students at the Genesee Community Charter School created this booklet as part of a three-month Learning Expedition on how and why Rochester became to be known as the Flower City. The product was modeled after a farmer's almanac...
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Lisbon School District: Digital Book Reports and Research Projects
Students in Grades 2, 3, and 4 researched wild animals and a person in American history. They wrote and presented reports and created movies. This page presents three examples of their digital book reports in video format.