EL Education
El Education: Discovering the Genesee Volume 1
Discovering the Genesee was created by third grade students in Rochester, New York, as part of a Learning Expedition on local history. Student work was guided by four questions, which became the chapters of their book: Who were the...
EL Education
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...
EL Education
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...
EL Education
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...
EL Education
El Education: Discovering the Genesee Volume 2
The Geology of the Genesee River Valley is the second volume of a series produced by 4th grade students at the Genesee Community Charter School while studying geology, physical fitness, and artist composition. The Students spent three...
EL Education
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...
PBS
Pbs: Arts
The home on the web for arts-related content that airs on PBS stations. You can link to the program sites of long-running arts broadcasts, sample special exhibitions, and investigate what the network is airing or has recently aired on...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Andy Warhol/digital Self Portraits
Students will be introduced to the life and art of Andy Warhol as a way of considering photography as a self-portrait medium. They will create their own digitally manipulated photographic self-portrait and then write a poem to describe...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ambiguous Pictures/abstract Art
In this lesson students will use art, writing, and technology to explore abstract art. Students will use digital cameras to take extreme close up shots of objects that will resemble abstract art.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Look at Me!
Students will write an autobiography and use pictures of themselves from past and present to illustrate it.
University of South Florida
No Strings Attached: Family Heritage
Young scholars bring in an object from home that represents their family heritage. Students then use cameras and scanners to import their object into the computer. The lesson plan has the young scholars complete a writing piece but you...
EL Education
El Education: Pieces of Me
Students take photographs of their favorite body parts and then write essays explaining why this part is their favorite.
EL Education
El Education: The Important Thing About Our Families
Students write complete sentences about their families. As they learn to punctuate sentences correctly, type them on a computer, and take digital pictures, they work together to create a class book.
Other
Emily Dickinson: Early Feminist Essays (Pub. 1886 1915)
This is an eclectic mix of Dickinson's letters, some early essays about her writing, and remembrances of her by friends and family. The texts of 32 of her poems are annotated with references to other Dickinson writings. The entire site...