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El Education: Bird Cards
This set of note cards was created by kindergarten students from the Anser Public Charter School in Boise, Idaho, as part of a year-long Learning Expedition on birds. Each student became a specialist in his or her specific species of...
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El Education: Black Holes: What Are They?
This is a children's book created by two freshman students during at High Tech High. For this project, the students selected, researched, and wrote an essay on a topic related to astronomy. Then using the information in their essay, they...
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El Education: Book Trading Cards
This collection of trading cards was created by 5th and 6th graders at Shutesbury Elementary School in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, as part of a choice-based fictional reading project. Each student selected a fiction book that he or she...
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El Education: Calendar of Forest Park
This calendar was created by 1st grade students in Springfield, Massachusetts, as part of their "Parks as a Neighborhood Resource" Learning Expedition. Students investigated a neighborhood resource while also learning about the function...
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El Education: Class Portrait Poster
Kindergarten students at the College School in St. Louis, Missouri, created this over-sized poster of individual student self-portraits. The portraits were part of an investigation of the students in the class- their similarities and...
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El Education: Collecting Nature's Alphabet
This book features two separate yet related projects created by kindergarten students at The College School in St. Louis, Missouri. After reading the book Discovering Nature's Alphabet, kindergarten students were inspired and asked to go...
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El Education: A Color Expedition
These digital photographs were created by pre-kindergarten students at The College School, located in St. Louis, Missouri. As part of a Learning Expedition on color, students went on class walks to look for specific colors, noticing...
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El Education: Creature of the Tides
This picture book was created by a high school junior from the Kanu o ka 'Aina New Public Charter School on The Big Island of Hawaii, a K - 12 Hawaiian-Immersion school. It was created for younger, elementary-aged students, as part of an...
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El Education: Deer Watercolor
This watercolor painting was done by a 6th grade student from the Shutesbury Elementary School, in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. Watercolor art was a class-wide study in the classroom, and students took on personal watercolor projects...
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El Education: Discovery Charter School Map
Second grade students at Discovery Charter School created this map as the final product for an expedition titled "Discovering Discovery." This expedition was an opportunity for students to explore maps and map-making through the lens of...
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El Education: Earth, Wind and Fire
Third grade students at World of Inquiry, School #58 created this set of cards as part of an expedition on natural disasters. To create their card, each student researched and wrote a descriptive summary on a specific natural event; each...
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El Education: East End Bird Cards
1st grade students at the East End Elementary School in Portland, Maine, created these note cards as part of a learning expedition on birds. To create these cards, students used a multi-step process: they created a watercolor background,...
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El Education: Ever Wonder Why?
Students from the Greece Central School District in New York created this bilingual Pourquoi storybook. This collaborative project was written by students in third grade, then translated into Spanish, illustrated and marketed by high...
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El Education: Expedition Programs
This is a collection of programs, across a number of schools, which describe celebrations of learning, also called exhibitions of learning or school exhibition nights. Celebrations of learning are hosted by Expeditionary Learning Schools...
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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: 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: 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: Heroes
This children's book was written by students grades K-3 from Rock Point Charter School. Students wrote about their heroes and illustrated the page.