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Creative photo art projects around the Ugly Duckling, a children's book, can open students' eyes to seeing life within an entirely new way. In this lesson, students will photograph old, rusty, discarded and unusually placed items found everywhere. Using photo enhancing software, they're going to then develop a picture that can take what others may have seen as ugly, turning it into something beautiful. (Note: If the school doesn't have photo enhancing software, then Gimp, the industry free download, works extremely well.) Between June 25 and 26, 1876, a combined force of Lakota and Northern Cheyenne led the United States 7th Cavalry right into a battle nearby the Little Bighorn River in what was then the eastern edge of the Montana Territory. The engagement is famous by several names: the Battle of Greasy Grass, the Battle of Little Big Horn, and Custer's Last Stand. Perhaps the most famous action in the Indian Wars, it was a remarkable victory for Sitting Bull and his forces. They defeated a column of 900 men led by George Armstrong Custer; five of the Seventh's companies were annihilated and Custer himself was killed inside engagement in addition to 2 of his brothers as well as a brother-in-law. Known as the battle that left no white survivors, Little Big Horn has inspired a lot more than 1,000 artwork, including over 40 films. Here are four of the best...