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El Education: Flower City Atlas

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
3rd grade students in Rochester, New York, created this historical/environmental guide to the City of Rochester as part of a learning expedition on local history. The guiding questions were: How did Rochester become the Flower City? How...
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El Education: Forest Park Zoo

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This guide to the animals at the Forest Park Zoo was created by 1st grade students at the Alice B. Beal Magnet School in Springfield, Massachusetts, and was part of a Learning expedition on animals. Students, through fieldwork...
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El Education: Fourth Grade Tumbler's Manual

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This manual was created by 4th grade students at the Alice B. Beal Magnet School in Springfield, Massachusetts, during a learning expedition on rocks and minerals. The expedition included fieldwork to local geological sites and to...
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El Education: Geology for Kids

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
4th grade students from the Swift River Elementary School in New Salem, Massachusetts, created this field guide to local geology, featuring "Things to Know" and "Places to Visit", as part of a study of local geology and rocks and...
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El Education: Get Bent

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This book was created by seniors at High Tech High in San Diego, California. During this three-month long project, teams of students created a chair with a bend or curve and a lamp of their own design. Following the completion of this...
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El Education: Get a Clue

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This nonfiction children's book was created by 1st grade students at the Genesee Valley Community Charter School in Rochester, New York, as part of a learning expedition on fossils and local geological history. The expedition consisted...
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El Education: Give Bees a Chance

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This book was created by 6th grade students at the Genesee Community Charter School as part of a learning expedition on bees and beekeeping. They investigated the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) - a local and national threat to bees,...
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El Education: Graphic Lettering Alphabets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
These graphic lettering alphabets were created by 5th/6th grade students in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. They were products from a study of fonts, lettering and graphic arts, to build skills to enhance the visual presentation of all their...
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El Education: Greenprint

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ninth grade students at Springfield Renaissance School wrote the Greenprint report as part of a learning expedition called Powering the 21st Century. The report summarizes student findings from energy audits at schools around the city...
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El Education: Guide to Energy Sources

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This guide was created by 3rd and 4th grade students at the Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as part of a learning expedition on energy sources and alternative energy. Students studied all forms of...
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El Education: Healthy Snacks Recipe Book

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This recipe book was created by 1st and 2nd graders at the Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., during as part of a Fitness and Nutrition Learning Expedition. Students created this kid-friendly cook book from their own...
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El Education: A Historical Walk Through Massachusetts

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This book was created by 3rd grade students from the Alice B. Beal Elementary School in Springfield, Massachusetts. A Historical Walk through Massachusetts was created as part of a learning expedition on colonial history. Through...
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El Education: Home of Ivy Olcott

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These blueprints were created by a 5th/6th grade student from the Shutesbury Elementary School in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, as part of a Learning expedition on Architecture.The blueprints correspond to a character file (CF) created by...
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El Education: Honor for All: Japanese American Experience

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These booklets (sample provided) were created by 7th grade students at the Harmon Middle School, in Aurora, Ohio as part of a case study of Japanese internment within a broader study of World War II. Students, singly or in pairs,...
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El Education: How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This book was created by kindergarten students from the East End Community Charter School in Portland, Maine, as part of an eight-week learning expedition on local food and gardens called, "How Does Your Garden Grow?" These young...
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El Education: I Like the Color

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This children's book was created by students, grades 4-12, in an after-school program at the Kanu o ka 'Aina Charter School in Hawaii as a way to introduce younger students to colors as part of an extensive and ongoing effort to create...
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El Education: If You Take a Dog to the Beach

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Kindergarten students created this children's picture book. If You Take a Dog to the Beach was based on the commercial book series that includes If You Give a Moose a Muffin in which a sequence of events is kicked off by an initial...
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El Education: The Important Thing About Our Families

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students write complete sentences about their families. As they learn to punctuate sentences correctly, type them on a computer, and take digital pictures, they work together to create a class book.
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El Education: Insect Bookmarks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
These bookmarks were created by 2nd graders at the Alice B. Beal Elementary School in Springfield, Massachusetts, as part of a two-month Learning expedition on insects. The learning expedition included field observation and collection,...
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El Education: Insect Cards

For Teachers 1st - 5th
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

For Teachers 1st - 5th
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: It's All Greek to Me

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This book was created by 7th grade students in Portland, Maine as part of a learning expedition on ancient civilizations, focusing on ancient Greece.The book includes collage-like portraits and background information on famous figures...
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El Education: Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Trail Guide and Calendar

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students study wildlife at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and then work together to create a calendar field guide with digital photographs and information about various forms of wildlife found in the refuge.
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El Education: Jason and the Matha Lisa

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Students work together in groups to write and illustrate a fiction story explaining a math concept.