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Math in Motion

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"The Color I Made Is Stunning!" | Models of Excellence

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Pre-kindergarten students at Capital City Charter School in Washington, D.C. worked on an intensive study about color mixing and the connection between colors and feelings. Children explored emotion, food, places, and special objects through color and created original stories to describe their favorite colors.

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This poster of the alphabet was created by kindergarten students from the College School in St. Louis, Missouri, and combines formal lettering with student drawings. Each student picked a word that started with a letter and drew a picture that captured the essence of that word.

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A Shared Space: Biodiversity and the Tijuana River Watershed | Models of Excellence

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Seventh grade students at High Tech Middle Chula Vista created this book to discover and document the diversity of living organisms seen daily around their school. Students worked with WiLDCOAST's Coastal Conservation Program Manager to learn about the Tijuana River watershed, and also took a field trip to the Living Coast Discovery Center to learn more about watersheds.

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Kindergarten students at Dr. Walter Cooper Academy in Rochester NY created this Toy Alphabet poster as part of an expedition titled "Toys Over Time." The poster was presented to the pre-kindergarten class as part of their service-learning project.

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Animal Stories - Shark Help | Models of Excellence

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Kindergarten students at the Odyssey School of Denver worked on creating compelling story books featuring a favorite animal as the main character. To write engaging stories students brainstormed animals they loved, researched a chosen favorite including that animal's habitat, and created a setting map.

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Self Portraits: Multiple Drafts | Models of Excellence

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Each student's self-portraits change dramatically across time. For example, Sam's drawings start with huge eyes, an undeveloped nose and crazy hair. In his second drawing, Sam pays more attention to facial details, beginning to add realistic features.

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Kindergarten students from The College School in St. Louis, Missouri, created this series of pictures and words to represent each letter of the alphabet. Originally displayed over the blackboard as a pictorial ABC series, these images served as information to young students about letters and their order in the alphabet.

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Students spent the entire year studying nature and related issues, such as recycling and gardening. They visited a park to surround themselves in nature and explore. At the same time, the class was studying numbers and reading counting books, and they decided to combine both of those studies by taking pictures of numbers in nature.

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Art is Painting Yourself | Models of Excellence

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Prior to painting the final draft of their portrait, the students learned about the color spectrum, how to mix paint to create different colors and experimented with various art mediums. The students listened to different types of music and made connections between color and the emotions brought on by different musical tempos.

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The combination of the writing, self-portrait and the carefully-photographed full-body sculptures give a fresh and charming view of each student. The overall aesthetic quality of the book is superb. Like all products from this classroom and school, the student work went through a process of discussion, critique and revision through multiple drafts.

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E is for Earthworm: An A - Z Guide | Models of Excellence

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After examining several alphabet books, students decided on the elements and characteristics they would include on the pages of their book: a large letter, text related to worm habitats, and on each page the text must correspond to the pictures. Each student made a drawing of a letter using a student-created criteria list and then conducted peer critiques.

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Fabulous Fox, Fabulous Fox, Who do you see? | Models of Excellence

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Based on the Brown Bear, Brown Bear series of books by Bill Martin, Jr. and inspired by the illustrations of Eric Carle, students created self-portraits that express a variety of emotions and which incorporate multiple drafts and artistic techniques. Students also learned about individuality, inherited traits, and how families are alike and different.

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Insects - The Praying Mantis | Models of Excellence

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Kindergarten students at the Odyssey School of Denver worked on creating informational science books featuring different insects. Each student created a book based on one insect including information on the insect's body parts, habitat, camouflage, community, metamorphosis, and other "cool facts." Each child coded the information in their book and included a labeled scientific drawing of their insect.

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Collecting Nature's Alphabet | Models of Excellence

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This book features two separate yet related projects created by kindergarten students at The College School in St. Louis, Missouri. After reading the book 'Discovering Nature's Alphabet', kindergarten students were inspired and asked to go outside and look for their own alphabet.