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Shifting Gears: Promoting Rochester's Two-Wheeled Revolution

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Using the bicycle as a lens for a year-long focus, sixth grade students at the Genesee Community Charter School in Rochester, New York learned how they can make a difference in their own community by engaging in community activism.

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Revitalize Rochester

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Sixth grade students at the Genesee Community Charter School in Rochester, New York created a report/position paper arguing for the reconsideration of an unsuccessful bond issue to revitalize downtown Rochester by restoring water to the dry Erie Canal waterway.

Stone-Tolan House - Historical Coloring Book

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Coloring book and guide to a historic house in Rochester, NY

Portraits of Rochester

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Newspaper with interviews of town officials and historical information about the city of Rochester, NY

Searching for Freedom - Matisse Cards

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Note cards with silhouettes of students modeling physical expressions of slavery and freedom.

Flower City Almanac

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Booklet on how Rochester became to be known as the Flower City; modeled after the Farmer's Almanac

First Come the Eggs

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Illustrated children's biography of Seth Green, who started the first fish hatchery in America

How the Erie Canal Helped Rochester Grow

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During this expedition, 3rd-grade students at Genesee Community Charter School were taken on a journey through the development of the Erie Canal. They discovered the need of the canal because of the growing production of flour.

UnLOCKing Change: One Invention at a Time

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As part of a yearlong study of public art, sixth grade students at Genesee Community Charter School in Rochester, New York learned about the importance of water in the development of civilization.