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El Education: One Weave at a Time
Students create an instructional guide to weaving that includes different types of weaving, different types and parts of looms, patterns, and digital photographs of students weaving a bag.
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El Education: Our Favorite Body Parts
Students choose favorite parts of their bodies and explain why each part is their favorite. Teachers take digital photographs of the different body parts and write down each student's reasons for choosing it. The pages are put together...
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El Education: Personal Goals Poster
Students create posters to show their personal learning goals for the school year. A digital photograph, a self portrait, and goals of parents are also included on each poster.
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El Education: Pond Field Guide
Students use digital photographs and research to create a two-page field guide to be used as a reference sheet when completing field observations at the pond next to the school.
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El Education: A Tribute to Victory
High school students in Dubuque, Iowa, created this book as part of a learning expedition on World War II. In pairs, students conducted extensive interviews, asking veterans to share personal accounts of their experiences during the war....
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El Education: Many Faces, Many Places One New Life
Students interview recent immigrants and research the countries from which they came. Students present the information along with digital photographs on each page of a twelve-month calendar.
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El Education: Small Acts of Courage
After researching local heroes of the civil rights movement through secondary sources and through primary source interviews, students write biographies of these unsung heroes. The biographies, along with digital photographs, are compiled...
Other
Wsu: Virtual Motor City Collection (Detroit News)
Peruse this collection of over 800,000 photographs offering an illustrated history to the city of Detroit, Michigan.
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Stony Brook University: Sennacherib's Palace Without Rival at Nineveh
This book by John Malcolm Russell, a professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, was published in 1991. Written from the perspective of an art historian, he presents his ideas about the function of the Palace without Rival by...
Other
Gettysburg College: Civil War Era Collection
A special collection of political cartoons, maps, letters, photographs, artifacts, etc. all relating to the Civil War Era.
Other
Focus on Photography
These pages include the kinds of information typically covered in a basic photography course, including common features of digital and conventional cameras, photographic composition, types of lighting, and recommendations for evaluating...
PBS
Pbs: The Civil War, Images
Students can take digital primary source images and using a step-by-step tutorial create an online movie telling a story about the Civil War.
Other
Digital Frog International: Frog Mouth
A very impressive photograph of the inside of a frog's mouth. No text.
Curated OER
Photograph: Prime Minister St. Laurent, Speaking at Welcoming Ceremonies.
The National Library and Archives of Canada has a website dedicated to each province's road to Confederation in Canada. This section on New Foundland begins years before their eventual inclusion in 1949, but does include a section on...
Other
New York Public Library: Images of African Americans
An image database that includes pictures of African Americans from the 19th Century. Each image includes a description.
University of South Florida
No Strings Attached: Geometric Figures
Learners will prove their knowledge of geometric shape by capturing photographs of examples within their environment.
EL Education
El Education: Chickenology: The Art and Science of Keeping Chickens
This manual was written by a group of middle school and high school students in the Maplewood Richmond Heights school district. The students, known as the "Chickenologists", care for the district's flock of chickens. This comprehensive...
EL Education
El Education: Iconic: The Black and White of Our Heroes and Heroines
Eleventh grade students at High Tech High Media Arts School in San Diego California are the authors of this book: Iconic: The Black and White of Our Heroes & Heroines. To create this collection of essays each student reflected on...
McGill University
Mc Gill University Library: Hugh Mac Lennan Papers Online Project
A storehouse of information and resources about Canadian writer Hugh MacLennan. Biographical facts and details, publication history, chronology, searchable database of his personal correspondence, photographs, and similar resources.
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Maryland Historical Society: Collections Online
An online database full of paintings, photographs, manuscripts, decorative arts pieces, and lithographs pertaining to history topics. Topics include American Civil War, African American History, Women's History, and immigration and...
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State Library of North Carolina: From Crossroads to Capital: History of Raleigh
A collection of maps, photographs, and historical documents that explore the growth of the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, from its earliest years onward.
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New York Public Library: Small Town America
This site provides pictures to help you understand the way of life during the turn of the twentieth century. Enter the collection and click on "Browse" for a drop down menu of collections of photographs of "street scenes in cities,...
Library of Congress
Loc: Paul Laurence Dunbar: Online Resources
"The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material associated with Paul Laurence Dunbar, including manuscripts, photographs, and books." This resource tool gathers links to digital materials available...
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Northumberland County Council: Northumberland Communities
This project provides original source material on Northumberland County's 76 communities. Organized by community it provides digitized records, maps, photographs, and historic overviews of each.