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My Hero Project

My Hero: Reading My Hero Stories

For Teachers 5th - 8th
The individual stories found on the My Hero website offer expository and narrative pieces that can be used to teach reading skills to students of all ages and in all disciplines. A lesson plan is provided to incorporate My Hero stories...
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Pocantico Hills School: State Reports by Students

For Students 4th - 6th
At this site look through these reports written by Grade 5 students in the 1998-99 school year. Click on the state that you are interested in. Please note that not all states have reports.
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Blue Planet Biomes: World Climates

For Students 5th - 7th
Have you ever wondered why one area of the world is a desert, another a grassland, and another a rainforest? Why are there different forests and deserts, and why are there different types of life in each area? The answer is climate.
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My Hero Project

My Hero: Jackie Robinson

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to learn about the man who "broke the color barrier in major league baseball," Jackie Robinson. This article overviews Robinson's sports career, includes images, and provides "related links" for further reading and...
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Pocantico Hills Central School: The Civil War for Kids

For Students 3rd - 5th
Written and published by an elementary school class in New York, this site offers lots of information on the Civil War. You'll find pictures, maps, a timeline, and graphs. Learn about battles, leaders, uniforms, flags, and much more....
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Pocantico Hills School: Children's Encyclopedia of Women

For Students 3rd - 8th
This online resource was created by third and fourth graders in Sleepy Hollow, New York. The biographies are quite short but cover hundreds of women. They are listed in alphabetical order by last name. There are also links to a timeline...
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EL Education

El Education: An Immigrant Experience

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
As part of a Learning expedition on immigration, 4th grade students in Springfield, Massachusetts, created this series of interview booklets. Students, working together in small groups, interviewed a person who had immigrated to the...
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EL Education

El Education: Rock and Mineral Machine Poster

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students complete field observations and work with local geologists to collect rock and complete a lab on rock and mineral testing and identification. Students then invent a fictional machine to identify rocks, and finally they create a...
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EL Education

El Education: Rock and Mineral Trading Cards

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students complete field and museum observations and work with local geologists to collect information on various types of rocks. Each student then creates a trading card with an original illustration of the rock on the front and the...
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EL Education

El Education: 1853: 24 Hours in the Fight for Freedom

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This is a book created by a 4th grade class after studying slavery and women's rights in 1853. Students wrote 1st person stories of experiences they read about and illustrated them; each story detailed a snapshot in the life of their...
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EL Education

El Education: Aquatic Invasive Stamps

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students in Wiscasset, Maine, created these stamps as part of a learning expedition on invasive ocean species. They researched ocean species, and in particular, problems caused by invasive ocean species, working with local experts. Teams...
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EL Education

El Education: Architectural Features Cards

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Fifth grade students at Genesee Community Charter School created these cards during an expedition called Liberty and Justice for All ? To create the cards, students researched and sketched Federal, Georgian, Colonial, Greek and other...
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EL Education

El Education: Autumn Helena Washington Hawn

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This Character File (CF) was created by a 5th/6th grade student in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, as part of a learning expedition on Deaf Culture. Students did fieldwork at four schools for the Deaf, including overnight exchange visits; all...
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EL Education

El Education: A Beaver Story

For Teachers 5th - 7th
This children's book about beavers was written and illustrated by 6th graders after extensive field research with experts in the field. The book is unique in that it offers a continuous fictional narrative at the top of each page, an...
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EL Education

El Education: Beetlemania: It's More Than John, Paul, Ringo and George

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Beetlemania is a field guide to the Rocky Mountain Beetle Infestation in the Colorado Forest Ecosystem written and illustrated by 5th and 6th grade students at Explore Elementary in Thornton, CO. This extensive field guide includes...
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EL Education

El Education: Bessy

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
8th grade students at the Pioneer Charter School in Fort Collins, Colorado, each created a historical character file (HCF) as part of a Learning Expedition on slavery. Each HCF is a fictionalized account of a historically/geographically...
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EL Education

El Education: Blanca Rosenberg

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This memoir-style book was created by a 5th/6th grade student in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, and tells the life story of a Holocaust survivor. Blanca Rosenberg is the biography of Blanca written in first person narrative, as told to the...
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EL Education

El Education: Blueprints With Four Drafts

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
These four drafts of architectural blueprints were created by a 5th/6th grade student from Shutesbury Elementary School, in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, as part of a Learning expedition on Architecture.
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EL Education

El Education: A Book of Poetry

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
This is a book of poetry written by a 6th grade class. They worked with their English teacher and their visual art teacher to create watercolors on which they superimposed their poems to create this book.
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EL Education

El Education: Camilla E. Church

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This character file was created by a 5th/6th grade student in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, as part of a Learning expedition on architecture. Though only one is shown here, each student's character file (CF) tells the detailed life story,...
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EL Education

El Education: Centaur Knot Manual

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
3rd and 4th grade students from the Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences in Santa Fe, New Mexico, created this book of knots as part of a learning expedition on sailing. As one part of their expedition, students studied different...
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EL Education

El Education: Chauncie Mallen

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A 5th/6th grade student in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, created this character file (CF) as part of a Learning expedition on local scientists. As part of the expedition, students surveyed all of the fields that are considered the hard...
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EL Education

El Education: Creation of a Nation

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This script of a play was created by 4th grade students at the Genesee Community Charter School in Rochester, New York, as part of a learning expedition on the Revolutionary War and the birth of the United States. Students wrote,...
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EL Education

El Education: Discovering the Genesee Volume 1

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Discovering the Genesee was created by third grade students in Rochester, New York, as part of a Learning Expedition on local history. Student work was guided by four questions, which became the chapters of their book: Who were the...