This video, from History.com’s archive, focuses on scientist’s efforts to discover how old the Earth is.
Related NY State Academic Standards: S.MS.LS.4.1, S.MS.ESS.2.1, MST4 and more!
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This video, from History.com’s archives, focuses on the history of the Jewish holiday, Hanukkah.
Related NY State Academic Standards: SS.5.5.a.1, SS.6.4, SS.6.4.a and more!
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In this lab, students will learn about how some solutes that are only partly soluble can be forced to fully dissolve with heat.
Related NY State Academic Standards: MST4.C.C.PS3.1
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Use a world map and elicit “Where are you from?”, “Where do you live?”, “Where do people speak Spanish?”, “Where’s China?”, and any other questions you can think of. Also show and tell the students about where you are from.
Related NY State Academic Standards: ESL.E.PK-1.5.1.1, ESL.E.PK-1.5.1.3, ESL.E.PK-1.5.1.6 and more!
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In this resource, works of art from the nineteenth century are paired with written documents to be used as primary sources for students to reconstruct the influence of technology, geography, economics, and politics on daily life 19th century America.
Related NY State Academic Standards: ARTS.VA.I.1.1.B, ARTS.VA.I.1.1.D, ARTS.VA.I.1.1.E and more!
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Students will use prior knowledge of animal cells to create a cell. This activity will provide students with a hands on activity to help them visualize what a cell looks like. The cell will consist of various teacher given materials that demonstrate and reinforce their knowledge of structures that are within a cell.
Related NY State Academic Standards: S.MS.LS.1.1, MST4.I.LE.1.1
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Artgames is an interactive website designed to engage children in playful, interactive learning about works of art in the collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.
Related NY State Academic Standards: NAS.VA.Pr4.1.7.a, NAS.VA.Pr5.1.III.a, NAS.VA.Pr6.1.4.a and more!
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For this lesson, students will view a variety of animated myths in order to create a web that identifies the characteristics of a myth.
Related NY State Academic Standards: RL.1.1, RL.1.9, RL.1.9.a and more!
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In this Learning Experience, students learn about immigration by creating a living museum, stressing the significance of items that have been “passed down” through generations.
Related NY State Academic Standards: RL.1.1, RL.1.9, RL.1.9.a and more!
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Students will learn how microscopes have contributed to our knowledge of life science as well as the basic differences between plant and animal cells.
Related NY State Academic Standards: S.MS.LS.1.1, MST4.I.LE.1.1a, MST4.I.LE.1.1c
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