Make and Take Workshop Descriptions
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Civic Education
The Heart of Democracy
Explore It! Connect! It Create It!
Grades 3-8
Empower your students to become responsible, productive and caring citizens.
Discover the foundations of freedom using cross-curricular, hands-on cooperative and individual learning activities.
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Creative Ways To Support Core Democratic Values
Grades K - 5
Demonstrate projects and activities designed to help students connect the Core Democratic Values to their everyday lives. Hands-on activities will help your students make real world connections as they learn the foundations of democracy using the Fundamental Beliefs and Constitutional Principles.
- Three Hour Interactive Workshop
- Connect IT™ activity guide
- Hands–on models that can be used
in your classroom the next day.
Fold & Cut Your Way Into Writing Using the GLCEs
Grades K- 5
Discover creative ways to connect social studies with language arts using characters from history and literature. Learn how fold & cut characters and other make and take projects can connect visual images with the written word.
Digging Deeper- A Workshop on Profundity
Grades K-8
Guide students to be better readers, thinkers, and writers as they develop strategies and techniques using higher order thinking skills in a fun and interactive way.
- Expository and Narrative flip
books
- Three Hour Interactive Workshop
with SBCEU availability
- Hands on models
Custom Education Programs
Complimentary workshops
available to teachers
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Michigan L.A.P.’s™ Program
In order to increase public knowledge and appreciation for Michigan’s wonderful natural resources, EDCO Publishing and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources partnered to create L.A.P.’s™ . (Learn from the past, Appreciate the present and Preserve our outdoor heritage). This complimentary program teaches Michigan fourth graders about Michigan history and natural resources.
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L.A.P.’s™ Workship Titles:
The Great Lakes
Explore the historical, geographical and natural resources of the continent’s fourth seacoast through this L.A.P.’s™ unit
Celebrate Michigan All Year Long
Explore our state using Michigan themed books and activities that can be integrated into your curriculum.
L.A.P.’s™ Overview
This workshop is recommended for new 4th grade teachers or as a refresher for teachers to demonstrate backgound, content and organization of the L.A.P.’s™ Program.
L.A.P.’s™ ELA MEAP & GLCE
Activities, strategies and skills are shared to help students improve their performance on the MEAP test while learning about Michigan’s natural resources and history.
Corporate Programs
Complimentary workshops
available to teachers
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Michigan On The Move Program
Grade 4
EDCO collaborated with the Ford Motor Company to create the
Michigan on the Move
program to help students learn about and gain appreciation for Michigan's rich automotive history, and learn about the many innovations taking place at the historic Ford Rouge Center.
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Cars, Children and Community-Cruising Through Time
Grades 4-6
Cruising Through Time
features the social and historical changes brought about by the automobile. Help students enhance their understanding of the many people, processes and parts it takes to make a car. Thematic lessons help integrate social studies, language arts and science using hands –on projects. This automotive
unit can be used with a field trip to the Walter P. Chrysler Museum or as a stand-a-lone cross-curricular unit.
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