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El Education: Native American Living
Students study Native American life and stereotypes during pre-colonial times. Then they create a historical magazine providing information and illustrations about pre-colonial Northeastern woodland tribes.
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El Education: Native American Living Then and Now
After studying Native American life in colonial times and comparing it to both stereotypes and truths about modern-day life for Native Americans, students create a book providing illustrations and information about past and present culture.
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El Education: The Natural Playscape Book
In this lesson, inspired by the book Childhood and Nature: Design Principals for Educators by David Sobel, students design a playscape area on school grounds. After designing the playscape and creating a list of materials, the students...
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El Education: Nautical Expedition Ships Log
After spending three days as a working crew on a three-masted ship, and learning to navigate by the stars, students create fictional entries for a ship's log throughout various periods in history.
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El Education: Nico the Gnatcatcher and the Upside Down River
Students completed research and field work observations to write and illustrate a children's book designed to teach young readers about the importance of protecting the San Diego River. Through grant funding, the school was able to...
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El Education: Now and Long Ago
Students create a coloring book comparing common present day items to the way the items would have looked during colonial times. Illustrations were inspired by field trips to a nearby colonial living history museum.
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El Education: Ocean Animals of Maine
Students create a field guide demonstrating their research, observations, and illustrations of ocean animals in their region.
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El Education: Ocean Animal Trump Cards
Students create trading cards with information and illustrations of ocean life. Then students created a card game that can be played with the trading cards.
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El Education: One Weave at a Time
Students create an instructional guide to weaving that includes different types of weaving, different types and parts of looms, patterns, and digital photographs of students weaving a bag.
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El Education: Operation Kidfit Recommendation Report
Students design a health and human body exhibit for a local museum by researching topics such as infectious diseases across history, anatomy, physiology, health, and nutrition. Students visited four museums across the country to...
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El Education: Original Physics Experiments
Students ask questions about why things move the way they do and then design and carry out science experiments on the physics behind the movement. Students create lab reports to explain the steps of their process and to record...
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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: Our Favorite Body Parts
Students choose favorite parts of their bodies and explain why each part is their favorite. Teachers take digital photographs of the different body parts and write down each student's reasons for choosing it. The pages are put together...
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El Education: A Park Grows in Portland
This field guide was a cross curricular project created by 7th grade students in Portland, Maine. Students engaged in multiple fieldwork visits to the Deering Park (across the street), during which they observed trees, recording with...
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El Education: Personal Goals Poster
Students create posters to show their personal learning goals for the school year. A digital photograph, a self portrait, and goals of parents are also included on each poster.
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El Education: Photographic Self Portraits
Students learn to translate conceptual thinking into photographs by creating self portraits with digital photography.
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El Education: Physnewtons
Students research the laws of physics and then paint a picture illustrating each law. Text and illustrations are laid out on a page to create an explanation of each law. Students combine their work into a class book which can be used to...
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El Education: Picture Alphabet
Students create an alphabet book by writing and illustrating a word for each letter of the alphabet.
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El Education: Pieces of Me
Students take photographs of their favorite body parts and then write essays explaining why this part is their favorite.
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El Education: Pointillist Self Portraits
Students create self portraits from a digital image with a fine point marker.
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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: Pond Field Guide
Students use digital photographs and research to create a two-page field guide to be used as a reference sheet when completing field observations at the pond next to the school.
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El Education: Pond Life Posters
Students gather information about pond life including plants, animals and insects through research field observations, and specimen collections. Students report their information along with original illustrations through a series of...
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El Education: Portraits of Rochester
Students interview local people including people from local organizations, a city planner, the county clerk, and the mayor. They also researched local history and combined their information to create newspaper with original illustrations.