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Project synopsis:
We feel that Saugus is lacking some of the "hometown pride" that the cities and places we visited showed in abundance. We are hoping to instill some of that pride in our students by having them decide on what historical content should be included in the site which we will help them develop. Currently the site is under construction, therefore, our students will: decide through survey results what artifacts should be in the museum, take pictures of and gather information for those artifacts, write the synopsis of that artifact and upload it to the website.

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Contains directions to each site

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City of Possibilities: Lawrence on the Merrimack

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City of Possibilities: Lawrence on the Merrimack

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City of Possibilities Lawrence on the Merrimack.pdf

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Copy of PEC Project Matrix  updated with 2018 PEC projects

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I love this town hall building in Saugus

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I love this town hall building in Saugus

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Image capture of two juvenile skate in a tank at CAMG.

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Our day in Lawrence was really eye-opening.  But then, all of the days and the resources have been that way.  We have a wealth of resources in Essex County.

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Our day in Lawrence was really eye-opening.  But then, all of the days and the resources have been that way.  We have a wealth of resources in Essex County.

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Saugus Iron Works was awesome!

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You can add photos you took to my album

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The Ardelle, built by Essex master shipbuilder Harold Burnham.

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Does anynone know what is happening here?

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Flounder and Mackerel!

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Inspiration

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1. Bethany Jay, Brad Austin, Liz Dulcos-Orsello, Avi Chomsky, Melanie Gonzalez, & Julie Whitlow

2. Rosario Ubiera-Minaya and Lucy Corchado

3. Mickey Northcutt

4. Ana Nuncio & Elsabel Rincón

5. Maryann Zujewski

6. Shelby Hypes

7. Hadley Green, Salem News

8. PEM

9. City of Salem

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A home and habitat for many plants and animals.

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A home and habitat for many plants and animals.

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Species of the Merrimack River, Lawrence.  Great collaborative effort.  Thanks Groundwork, Lawrence!

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The original, restored Eagle at SAMA NPS. Did you know that during WW2, they painted the Eagle black so that it wasn't easily recognized as a government building by possible U-Boats in the harbour.

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Hi all! This book is a great summer reading. I got it at Russell Orchards in Ipswich.

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Had the first meeting with the Punto Urban Art Museum directors to pitch my project today... they are on board and enthusiastic about partnership !

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Lawrence Lesson Plan Journey Through the Merrimack

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Lawrence Lesson Plan Journey Through the Merrimack

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Lesson Plan Journey Through Merrimack River

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Beth that is so great to hear. Today's (Labor Day) Salem paper had an article on the expansion of the Punto Art Museum expansion coming this month.

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Beth that is so great to hear. Today's (Labor Day) Salem paper had an article on the expansion of the Punto Art Museum expansion coming this month.

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Hi, PEC Team - here is a rubric that I found and adapted to help me assess students during projects.

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Learning about Salem Geography with Google maps in CIS class

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Debrief of a matching game of citizen rights and responsibilities

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Brief Synopsis:

Residents of Andover do not understand the role that the Merrimack River plays in their lives and that it is the source of all of their water.  Students will work on various projects to connect ancient water use with today’s water use, increase awareness about fresh water scarcity, investigate conservation issues, and identify and practice ways that people can help.  Students will become stewards of the Merrimack, better informed citizens of Andover, and informed water consumers.  Our big question is "How do we re-engage the residents of Andover so that everyone becomes a steward of our rivers?"

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We made model watersheds at the Lowell boat house - field trip called River as a Classroom.  They learned about the Merrimack River watershed, what a watershed is and how different parts of the watershed affect others - and the river as a whole.  In this project, they used their models and various scenarios to look at the effects of ground water pollution and surface run-off pollution.

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Students performed several H2O tests while on a boat on the Merrimack. The tested for turbidity, total dissolved solids, temperature, pH, nitrates, dissolved oxygen. I was so pleased with how much responsibility and respect they were shown as student scientists.

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Brief Synopsis of my project. Sorry, no pictures yet!

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Brief Synopsis of my project. Sorry, no pictures yet!

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The history of Beverly is full of interesting stories about ship builders, sea farers, industrial bosses, early settlers, and the occasional battle at sea. However, in all the time I've lived and worked here I have heard little to nothing about slavery in our community. My driving questions for this project are "What was Beverly's role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade? Who were the slaves that lived in Beverly and what were their lives like? What are the sources that could tell us about them?".
I'll be partnering with Historical Beverly, History Alive, Inc. Salem, and Salem State University to expose my students to the primary sources available to us that help us answer these questions. Over the course of several months I hope to have my students engage with the sources, construct narratives of the lives of slaves in Beverly based on the sources and ultimately commemorate the lives of the slaves with art, song, theater, academic work, poetry, etc.

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Saugus Historical Society homepage. Our project has a purpose. To help develop a web page for our Historical Society

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Saugus Historical Society homepage. Our project has a purpose. To help develop a web page for our Historical Society

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The Saugus Historical Society's Home Page.

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We have established contact with the Historical society! They were very enthusiastic at the meeting about our ideas and said they would be contacting us.........we're still waiting.

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We have established contact with the Historical society! They were very enthusiastic at the meeting about our ideas and said they would be contacting us.........we're still waiting.

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We have moved forward though and made contacts through our school to assist and will be attending the November meeting to solidify contact people, ideas and thoughts.

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Students learning about various ethnic groups that live in Salem. 

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Students learning about various ethnic groups that live in Salem. 

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Check out last week's homework  -
Guest links: https://flipgrid.com/260e438d
https://flipgrid.com/93d6b4f1
Guest codes:
260e438d
93d6b4f1
intro: 07b834b8

code: c7ccad77

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We have 32 student volunteers working in 3 teams on a grant for VR/AR equipment to help us make the virtual tour 3D.
Team 1 Grant writers
Team 2 Researchers and budget-builders
Team 3 Thank you slideshow and report back on how we are using last year's grant equipment

Grant application is due next week; we will build the rest of the task structure based on the response (ie do they use vR or regular tech). Next step will be to take a student sites of interest survey and reach out to historical societies and local businesses once the kids decide which locations in Manchester and Essex areas to feature.

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Salem Academy Charter School on Instagram: "Service Learning Day! These students are learning about the work of the @nationalparkservice and how we can serve them! #salemma #servicelearning #REACHforCollege #SalemAcademyCS #maritime #nationalhistoricsite"

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29 likes, 0 comments - salemacademycs on September 28, 2018: "Service Learning Day! These students are learning about the work of the @nationalparkservice and ..." 

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My pitch Powerpoint.

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Here is the Salem Academy General permission slip that they send out in the beginning of the year

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Here is the Salem Academy General permission slip that they send out in the beginning of the year

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Lore episode on Dogtown

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A podcast with a lot of local history. The episode "Forgotten" features Dogtown in Gloucester
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HP Reveal is an augmented reality application that people can download to make the world more interactive.

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Copy of Copy of General Permission Slip.ENG & SPAN

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They took down the video, but here is Miguel's Instagram. He's a local artist, who grew up in the neighborhood and has been involved in the project.

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Historical Illustrations of Marine Life Slideshow

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Historical Illustrations of Marine Life Slideshow

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We are exploring the Punto app and taking language samples for the future literacy project alongside our Kinder reading buddies.

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Introducing digital museum tours to our students and taking some data on our students' interests. All for student-led project role-out coming next month,

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In case the Nearpod gives you trouble opening, here is a direct youtube link for my preteach to the buddy experience.

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Caddisfly - one of the first signs of spring on the Shawsheen River.

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Caddisfly - one of the first signs of spring on the Shawsheen River.

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We walked to the river and did some silent observations. We also encountered the first insect to emerge, wild turkeys, a rat (!), and many, many birds.

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Hanging out in the post office parking lot observing the river.

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During our walk, we stopped 4 times. Two of them were silent, guided observations of the river and everything around it. See the giant pile of snow? The students were very concerned about the amount of salt and other pollutants that were melting into the river as we watched.

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Colleague shares her immigration experience with students.

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Learning about Spanish culture

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There has been significant progress in my Slavery in Beverly project. I've met several times with local historians from the Beverly Historical Society (Lucy Keller and Terri McCole) about the project and we've identified 9 primary documents  that each deal with slavery in and around Beverly in the 18th and 19th centuries. The letters are rich in content and very moving. We've even decided on a date to have the historians come in and help the students interpret the documents. With this project our students will be the historians, interrogating the sources for any historical information they can. However, this is only one aspect of the project. I've been working also with Kristina Stevick-Wacome of History Alive, Inc to develop an appropriate assignment for my students to do that allows them to really work with the sources and develop an empathic approach to history. We've decided that they will write and (perhaps) perform 1 minute monologues based on the people that they encounter in the documents. We are hoping that this assignment will allow them to respond to the troubling history they've encountered and also give them a chance to use the historical knowledge they've discovered.
Here are some photos of photocopies of the documents my students will read.

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This is the survey we will be using with students to decide what we will be researching.

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This is the survey we will be using with students to decide what we will be researching.

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Google Forms - create and analyze surveys, for free.

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It's been an interesting year at Salem High School. We have a new principal and lots of new energy in the building.

My students are interested in creating a virtual walking tour to highlight immigrant history in Salem. The team of teachers working with Intermediate ELLs are all on board with developing this project, but we are still in the planning phase.

Getting students motivated to take initiative has been a challenge, but we are working to get them excited and motivated. The students have told us that SoundCloud and Spotify are the music platforms they use, and Instagram and Youtube are where they go to watch videos and clips.

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We got some equipment last week through school and the Essex Heritage grant,  though the Spaulding grant did not come through. My TA is working on an instructional slide for students. Kids are working on a different PSA right now - showcasing the UN Global Goals - and then we will move to the kids guide.

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Our student leaders presented to each of their advisory classes. The Goal: presenting our partner's request for a book and digital interviews

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Tomorrow we have a Panel Presentation with all 90+ students!

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That FlipGrid app was really effective for getting our students to film themselves. They can do it at home using their devices OR using school computers.

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This is our outline for the 4 days---waiting on superintendent permission 

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This is our outline for the 4 days---waiting on superintendent permission 

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Documentation of an interdisciplinary classroom science lab.  The dissection of a Dog Shark. 

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Documentation of an interdisciplinary classroom science lab.  The dissection of a Dog Shark. 

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Explaining some of the functions of the Dog Fish liver.

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A big surprise for some and delight for others.