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EL Education

El Education: One Weave at a Time

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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

El Education: Our Favorite Body Parts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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

El Education: Personal Goals Poster

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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

El Education: Pond Field Guide

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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

El Education: A Tribute to Victory

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

For Teachers 6th - 9th
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

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
Website
Other

Wsu: Virtual Motor City Collection (Detroit News)

For Students 9th - 10th
Peruse this collection of over 800,000 photographs offering an illustrated history to the city of Detroit, Michigan.
eBook
Other

Stony Brook University: Sennacherib's Palace Without Rival at Nineveh

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Primary
Other

Gettysburg College: Civil War Era Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
A special collection of political cartoons, maps, letters, photographs, artifacts, etc. all relating to the Civil War Era.
Website
Other

Focus on Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs: The Civil War, Images

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Graphic
Other

Digital Frog International: Frog Mouth

For Students 9th - 10th
A very impressive photograph of the inside of a frog's mouth. No text.
Graphic
Curated OER

Photograph: Prime Minister St. Laurent, Speaking at Welcoming Ceremonies.

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Primary
Other

New York Public Library: Images of African Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
An image database that includes pictures of African Americans from the 19th Century. Each image includes a description.
Lesson Plan
University of South Florida

No Strings Attached: Geometric Figures

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners will prove their knowledge of geometric shape by capturing photographs of examples within their environment.
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EL Education

El Education: Chickenology: The Art and Science of Keeping Chickens

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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El Education: Iconic: The Black and White of Our Heroes and Heroines

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
Website
McGill University

Mc Gill University Library: Hugh Mac Lennan Papers Online Project

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Handout
Other

Maryland Historical Society: Collections Online

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Website
Other

State Library of North Carolina: From Crossroads to Capital: History of Raleigh

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of maps, photographs, and historical documents that explore the growth of the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, from its earliest years onward.
Website
Other

New York Public Library: Small Town America

For Students 9th - 10th
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,...
Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: Paul Laurence Dunbar: Online Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
"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...
Website
Other

Northumberland County Council: Northumberland Communities

For Students 9th - 10th
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.