Making Learning Visible: Comics in the Classroom
Ms. Jones’s 4th-grade ELA students transformed the short story "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury into a comic. The objective was to show as a six-panel comic an important moment in the science-fiction tale, when the sun finally comes out for one hour after seven years of rainstorms.
Learning In Motion: Stop Motion Animation in the Classroom
Discover how stop-motion animation brings science and art together in the classroom! See how Pre-K to 4th-grade students at Esperanza created dynamic films that illustrate kinetic energy and modes of transportation.
Art that Moves: Expression and Problem Solving through Kinetic Sculptures
The process of creating our Kinetic Sculptures showed what can happen when you get art moving: artistic expression and problem solving at its finest!