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Author Archives: aharvey001

Mesoamerican Flag Book

April 20, 2014by aharvey001 2 Comments

These flag books are a classroom project made by my students while we studied Mesoamerica in ancient civilizations. Across the top you see the Olmec culture which was the “mother […]

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Artist Books, Multicultural, Social Studies, Visual

Periodic Table of Elements

December 26, 2013by aharvey001 Leave a comment

Student self-portraits smiling back at my kids from the front of the classroom. Each on a colorful tile they recognize as the Periodic Table of the Elements – Developing a […]

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Science, Visual

Fall of Roman Empire

October 7, 2013by aharvey001 1 Comment

The Fall of the Roman Empire turned out fabulous for everyone but the Romans. Each student made an accordion book equating Rome’s Fall to Shakespeare’s Seven Stages of Man from […]

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Artist Books, Language Arts, Poetry, Social Studies, Visual

Heather’s Photography Book

September 29, 2013by aharvey001 Leave a comment

Since my last artist book received such a positive reaction, I’d like to share Heather’s book. Heather is my younger daughter who enjoys photography and has developed a good ‘compositional […]

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Hula Hoop Physics

September 12, 2013by aharvey001 Leave a comment

It’s storming outside so we can’t go out for our field investigations. But we are going to study ‘Physics’ later this year. So let’s build some background knowledge. Our dictionary […]

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Movement, Science

Fruits: An Artist Book

September 4, 2013by aharvey001 Leave a comment

For my daughter Michelle’s birthday I made an artist book around fruit. Her UW degree is in Food & Justice and she’s works for a sustainable farmer’s market in San […]

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Terrified

September 2, 2013by aharvey001 1 Comment

“Is this alright?” Yoselin came up to my desk and asked. We were writing a ‘quick write’ poem about different emotions and she chose ‘terrified’. This is what I read: […]

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Poetry, Student Stories

Kalee

August 26, 2013by aharvey001 1 Comment

Let me introduce you to an amazingly talented educator on a day she shared her gifts with my class. Kalee Alexandria, currently teaches for WaHeLut Indian School in Nisqually, WA, […]

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Language Arts, Music, Visual

Sarah’s Mom

August 10, 2013by aharvey001 Leave a comment

This begins a series of stories about how the Arts help students. Today’s story is about how a poetry lesson helped a special student remember her mom: Sarah came to me […]

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Student Stories

Mandala for Mount Rainier

Featuredby aharvey001 Leave a comment

MANDALA FOR MOUNT RAINIER Four Gates to Enter this Sacred Terrain GATE 1 – SUNRISE Petite glacier lily bows in reverence to the Daily renewal of its life-giving force which […]

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