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El Education: This Is Why I Cry
Students gain a deeper understanding of slavery by creating an accurate portrayal of a character from history. Each historical character file they create contains a portrait, a biographical narrative, a character map, a bibliography, and...
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El Education: Learning to Read Informational Texts: Building Background
In this comprehensive unit, students launch their learning about birds by using informational texts. As students read these texts, they build background knowledge and develop their skills as readers of informational texts. Included are...
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El Education: Collaborative Culture: Norms
This lesson discusses the implementation of classroom norms. These norms are inclusive and should transcend to the norms of the school.
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El Education: An Immigrant Experience
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: Kurare
After researching slavery and personal experiences of slaves with primary and secondary resources, students create a fictional character that is historically and geographically accurate. Character files include a portrait, a narrative...
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El Education: One Earth Step Gently: 23 Ways You Can Help Our Planet
Students create a class book for peers and younger students to learn ways to help the earth. Each suggestion is explained with only the most essential information and illustrated using a paper collage technique.
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El Education: Rock and Mineral Machine Poster
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: Rock and Mineral Trading Cards
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: 1 10 Book
This is a number book created by kindergarten students; the numbers are both numerals and words and are illustrated with the correct number of objects to represent the number. Originally, these pages were created and hung around the...
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El Education: 12 Angry Jurors
This is a playbill for a 9th grade play 12 Angry Jurors, adapted from the movie 12 Angry Men. Students designed the playbill which includes school information, credits, cast and author bios, a summary of the play, an investigation of the...
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El Education: 12 Things to Do for Everyone to Have Enough Healthy Food
This is part of a calendar created by 1st graders after studying about how to help everyone get the healthy food they need. Students wrote interview questions and went on field trips to community gardens, food banks, soup kitchens,...
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El Education: 1853: 24 Hours in the Fight for Freedom
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: 2005 Tree Calendar
This is a calendar created by kindergarten students after studying about trees. The students drew pictures of trees for each month to fit the season, wrote an informative statement, and created the calendar.
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El Education: Access Portland: Resource for Immigrants & Refugees
This resource guide was created by students in Portland, Maine, in an "attempt to make the resources of Portland, ME more easily accessible to new refugees and immigrants." Students met with representatives from local organizations and...
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El Education: Adolescence by Adolescents
This "field guide" was created by 7th and 8th grade students in Vergennes, Vermont, as part of a Learning expedition called Adolescent Odyssey and was meant to be a "user's manual" to students' changing bodies. Eighty students did...
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El Education: Adolescent Anatomy and Disease [Student Project]
10th grade students at Dayton Regional STEM School in Beavercreek, Ohio, created this book, Adolescent Anatomy and Disease. This project is the culmination of several months of student work and represents a collaboration between the life...
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El Education: Along the Charles River
Third grade students at Conservatory Lab Charter School in Brighton, MA, created this illustrated book of poetry as part of a three-month expedition on the Charles River. During this expedition, students learned how the Charles River...
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El Education: Alphabet Poster
This poster of the alphabet was created by kindergarten students from the College School in St. Louis, Missouri, and combines formal lettering with student drawings. Each student picked a word that started with a letter and drew a...
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El Education: Alternative Energy Report
This report was created by 7th and 8th grade students in Vergennes, Vermont, as part of a Learning expedition called "Reducing the Carbon Footprint." The building manager met with a team of approximately 40 students as they investigated...
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El Education: Ampersand
Ampersand: the student journal of school & work is a compilation of essays written by students at High Tech High Media Arts in San Diego, California. All students at this school complete an internship with a local organization during...
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El Education: And Justice for All
Students in 11th grade at Tapestry Charter High School created this project during a trimester-long study of constitutional rights and social justice in American history. The learning expedition centered around the question of whether...
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El Education: Andy Goldsworthy Nature Art
Eighth grade students from the Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, created pieces of art for a project based on the nature artwork of Andy Goldsworthy. Goldsworthy has become the archetypal artist of this...
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El Education: Aquatic Invasive Stamps
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: Architectural Features Cards
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...