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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.
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El Education: Pre Historic Mammal Cards
Students study prehistoric people and animals and create trading cards with an original illustration of an animal on one side and facts about that animal on the other.
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El Education: Radon Study
Students work together with local scientists and undergraduates students at a local college to learn about radon and test radon levels in their area. Students collected information through interviews and prepared individual reports for...
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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: Refugee Profiles
Students learn more about African history and culture through research, interviews, movies, books, and work with historians, college professors, and religious leaders. Then student write biographical stories of local refugees in first...
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El Education: Renewing Our Future
After completing research and field-work, students create a calendar with photographs, illustrations, and information about four different types of renewable energy: solar, wind, hydropower, and biomass.
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El Education: Reshaping Rochester
After learning about the effects of re-watering a dry water way in their city, students realize that public support would be needed for such an undertaking. In order to determine public support, students design and implement a survey,...
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El Education: Reshaping Rochester: Spreading the Word Brochure
After learning about the effects of re-watering a dry water way in their city, students create a brochure to highlight the information they gathered and boost public support for this project in their community.
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El Education: A Revitalization Report
In 2008, the ARTWalk 2 Planning Committee in Rochester, New York invited the sixth grade students at Genesee Community Charter School to make a meaningful contribution to the expansion of public art in Rochester. A Revitalization Report...
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El Education: Revitalize Rochester
Students research the effects of a city restoring water to a dry waterway and then create a report designed to inform and persuade voters to reconsider their views after voting down such a restoration in Rochester, New York.
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El Education: Revitalize Rochester Poster
After writing a report on the effects of restoring water ways in various cities, students create a poster advertising the presentation of the report to city officials and asking the public to attend in order to learn more about this...
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El Education: River Calendar
Student of various ages work together to create an illustrated calendar of animals they observed and researched.
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El Education: Rmsel Birds: A Neighborhood Guide
Students complete fieldwork and research on different types of local birds to complete a field guide. The guide provides information and illustrations for each bird along with a focus on the type of feet the birds have and the various...
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El Education: San Diego Bay: 2008 Tide Calendar
Students complete original research to create a calendar. Each calendar month includes a page with informational text and original photographs featuring different endangered animals of the San Diego Bay including tidal information and a...
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El Education: San Diego Bay Calendar 2007
Students complete original research to create a calendar. Each calendar month includes a page with informational text and original photographs featuring different aspects of the natural or cultural history of the San Diego Bay.
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El Education: San Diego Bay: A Call for Conservation
Students work together with scientists from universities, research centers, zoon and aquariums to research and study ecological aspects of San Diego Bay and the species that indicate the health of the ecology within the bay area.
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El Education: San Diego: A Story of Exploitation and Restoration
Students work together with college professors, museum experts, naturalists, historians, and industry leaders to research and create a field guide indicating the effects of growth and changes in hunting and fishing industries in San...
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El Education: Sapling Rise a Micro Field Guide
Students create a field guide for a three foot by three foot plot of ground. Students name their plots, graph temperature, create an inventory and table to record observations, make illustrations, and write informational text based on...
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El Education: Searching for Freedom Matisse Cards
Students use colored note cards to create silhouettes of each other. Each silhouette is a physical expression of freedom and slavery. Students cut out the silhouettes to create the Matisse Cut-Out style graphic.
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El Education: Seasons of Life
Students make multiple visits to a nursing home to develop a relationship with one person and learn about his or her life. Then students use a combination of illustrations, photographs, digital pictures, and biographical text to create a...
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El Education: Self Portrait Poster
Students create self-portraits which are then cut and pasted into one classroom collage.
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El Education: Self Portraits
Students work through drafting process to create self-portraits that later become the covers of autobiographical books.
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El Education: Signs From a to Z
As part of a study on Deaf Culture, students work together to create an alphabet book of American Sign Language Each page has an original illustration of the signed letter accompanied by a sentence using alliteration to give several...