Site developed as part of Grosvenor Fellowship with National Geographic and Lindblad Expeditions, featuring expedition materials, lesson plans and student work samples centered around art and environmental conservation.

A selection of up to date images of art work and photography centering on environment and culture.

Website developed as part of the Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms Fellowship, which features research on global education practices, model lesson plans and pedagogical approaches, research blog and guide for grants and best practices.

Information about the Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship with National Geographic and Lindblad Expeditions

Click through the link to see video of my presentation at the Curriculum Slam Supersession with Olivia Gude at NAEA 2018

Sample workshop for teacher development through Baltimore City Arts Integration and Advocacy Network Arts Every Day. I have been working with this organization since 2011.

Link through to my blog on Open Explorer documenting field research in Ecuador and culminating in a unit on Digital Storytelling to be published in Ecuador and the US Spring of 2019.
If any trouble with the click through from Fulbright, direct link is below:
https://openexplorer.nationalgeographic.com/expedition/ecuadorcultureandbiodiversity

For over three years I have been training Maryland State Educators in Art Education and Arts Integration Technique through Maryland Center for Creative Classrooms. Click through for more information on the program offered through the Maryland State Department of Education.

Additional samples of professional development materials with teacher work samples are available at:

https://padlet.com/egambino1/MC3Baltimore
https://padlet.com/egambino1/MATINorthArtsIntegration

I have been designing and delivering professional development trainings for educators for over a decade. On this site, access a cross section of materials on global education, design thinking, and more, offered to teachers in the past 4 years.
Contact me if you are interested in booking a session or wondering if I have material on a related topic!

I regularly train to work with new technology.
Highlighted here is a lesson on google's tourbuilder, developed while the platform was in beta testing in partnership with National Geographic Education.

This award winning, interactive educational experience modeled a new approach to museum education which allows audiences to construct and publish their own tours of the collection using cellphones and a virtual reality app, Aurasma. Designed in 2015 with assistance from Lindsday Feldman and Kathleen Mazurek.

Information on recent show of native plant paitings at MUIH.

Drain Magazine Article about Memory of Water installations at Spoleto Festival USA.

Publication from Earthwatch Teach Earth Fellowship:
Sample elementary art lesson plans integrating geography, environmental science and visual art using lab school methodology.

Work in elementary special education was later recognized by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and VSA Arts.
https://www.ed.gov/news/media-advisories/department-host-vsa-student-art-exhibit-ribbon-cutting-ceremony-honor-international-education-week

In 2010-2012, I partnered with Lindsay Bailey in Nashville Tenesse, on a series of projects which incorporated choreography, dance, character and puppet design, conflict resolution, and animation.
Read more about the work here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/586300314/deliciously-happy/posts?page=3
and here:
http://aperformancethemedinplay.blogspot.com/2010/06/introducing-elisabeth-gambino.html

I assisted Dr. Bob Hieronimus on the We the People mural renewal and was honored to receive civic recognition from the city of Baltimore.

Introduction to an interdisciplinary classroom exchange I established in 2017 with Kathie Distefano from our sister city, Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. Students from Baltimore and the Netherlands read the novel Trash, learned how art practices impact the environment, designed murals using upcycled materials, cleaned up litter in the community, and created advocacy posters with local artist Bridget Parlato.

Student work products from animation pilot with Lyn Tomlinson and Diane Kuthy and student teacher Vanessa Ferguson

Summary of Voya Unsung Heroes Grant for digital storytelling! More information and work products from the project are available at https://landandstory.wordpress.com/digital-storytelling-with-the-environment/