The student work created by four current eighth graders at Kilmer (the students were in 7th grade when they researched and put together the project) is featured on the E-Luminate (formerly called Books of Hope) web site as a sample book.
According to the E-Luminate website, the organization is "a 501c3 nonprofit service-learning program that engages U.S.
schools at all grade levels in creating nonfiction electronic educational
materials (in the form of PowerPoints, PDFs, Word documents, videos, audio,
etc.) for some of the world's most vulnerable children."
The assignment, currently in progress in the classrooms of two of our 7th grade teachers, creates an authentic learning experience for our students as they create educational material that will be used in Uganda and Sierra Leon.
The project on display, titled Main Events of World War II, can be viewed under the RESOURCES tab of the E-Luminate web site. Select SAMPLE BOOKS and scroll to Advanced Resources.
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