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...

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...

Students design a health and human body exhibit for a local museum by researching topics such as infectious diseases across history, anatomy, physiology, health, and nutrition. Students visited four museums across the country to...

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...

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...

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...

This children's book for young readers was created by a third-grade student at New Song Academy in Baltimore, MD. It was part of a project of celebrating local heroes: people who contribute to help the community. The neighborhood in...

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...

This Character File (CF) was created by a 5th/6th grade student in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, as part of a learning expedition on Deaf Culture. Students did fieldwork at four schools for the Deaf, including overnight exchange visits; all...

8th grade students at the Pioneer Charter School in Fort Collins, Colorado, each created a historical character file (HCF) as part of a Learning Expedition on slavery. Each HCF is a fictionalized account of a historically/geographically...

This character file was created by a 5th/6th grade student in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, as part of a Learning expedition on architecture. Though only one is shown here, each student's character file (CF) tells the detailed life story,...

A 5th/6th grade student in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, created this character file (CF) as part of a Learning expedition on local scientists. As part of the expedition, students surveyed all of the fields that are considered the hard...

8th grade students in Fort Collins, Colorado each created a historical character file (HCF) as part of a Learning Expedition on slavery. Each HCF is a fictionalized account of an historically/geographically accurate character. Each file...

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...

Middle school students write fables for intermediate school students based on a personal experience that taught them an important lesson about life. Students in both age groups learn from this exploration of social and emotional issues...

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...

Students interview people who have immigrated from other countries as well as the countries these people immigrated from. Then students write stories based on the information gathered and compile the stories into a book illustrated with...

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...

An online book entitled Vinnie DiCarlo by fifth and sixth grade students from Shutesbury Elementary School in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. The book includes an in-depth character study based on a character created by the students and...