Students work in small groups to learn more about their state's history.

Art images are for making connections with our world through art. The illustrated poetry has to do with global warming and how we must pay attention to help solve the problem. Thereby, we are better global citizens.

After viewing a variety of homes the second graders each chose a "building" with the idea that they would assemble a facade of that home. First they drew up plans in pencil and listed the materials they would need. They created backgrounds for their houses and sketched out their buildings. Then each student created the 2-D home facade from available resources on posterboard, and wrote a paragraph detailing the natural resources a builder would actually use in the construction of the home s/he created.

Students created a graphic novel to educate their reading buddy class to use natural resources in a sustainable way.

We will encourage society to be more humane, ethical, and reasonable by spreading awareness of endangered species.

Students created an infographic to defend their position about the colony's story being one of conflict, cooperation, or both. Some students stretched themselves by taking their paper draft to an online flyer using canva.

Students made posters to encourage people to conserve resources in English and Spanish.

Students worked collaboratively to design and paint a door mural that reflected symbols, people and places that were important to them in both our school and local community. This was a student driven-project, and students maintained creative control throughout the process.

We explored different images of urban, suburban and rural communities. Students made our classroom seal. Students answered one of their inquiry questions.

Students viewed image clusters and engaged in a "predict-observe-conclude" protocol.

Starting at the top and going clockwise, this is a circular map of our journey through the Our Special Location unit.

Students kicked off the unit on the American Revolution by doing a gallery walk in groups of 3. They were highly engaged and loved the activity. By the end, students were able to draw conclusions about what it means to be a revolutionary and what the word revolution means.