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El Education: A Field Guide to East Bog Swamp
This micro-field guide was created by 5th and 6th graders in Marlboro, Vermont. Groups of 3 or 4 students worked together to investigate their own 3 by 3 foot research plot, over multiple visits, and then created a field guide to their...
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El Education: Field Guide to Insects in Western Massachusetts
This field guide was created by 2nd graders in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was part of a two-month Learning Expedition that included field observation and collection, classroom experimentation and research, reading from books and...
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El Education: Field Guide to Local Amphibians
The Field Guide to Local Amphibians was created by 4th graders in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. It was created as one aspect of a three-month Learning Expedition on amphibians. Students collected town data for a statewide amphibian census;...
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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: First Thanksgiving Cards
As part of a Learning Expedition about the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians, 3rd graders in Springfield, Massachusetts created these note cards. They focused on the "real" story of the first Thanksgiving, using multiple perspectives...
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El Education: The Fish and Their Gifts
High school students write and illustrate original fables for younger students and create bilingual children's books to encourage cultural awareness on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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El Education: Floura Casuella
A 5th/6th grade student in Shutesbury, Massachusetts created this character file as part of a Learning expedition on local scientists. Students were engaged in a survey-style study of all of the fields that are considered the hard...
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El Education: Flower City Atlas
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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...