The museum uses images and artifacts to tell the compelling stories of what happened on September 11, 2001 and the days that followed. Although the average visitor saw extensive media coverage of the attacks, not as much detailed information was available to provide context or a history of the site. The objects and images in the exhibition are...
This is a curriculum designed for grades 2 – 8 that transforms your classroom into a learning lab about seventeenth-century Brooklyn. With primary sources including maps, diaries, cookbooks, account ledgers, and drawings, Dutch Breukelen contains resources and prompts that will spark and engage the curiosity of any New Yorker or Brooklyn-lover...
Throughout this lesson, students will read and discuss several aspects of Haudenosaunee tribal leadership and how they function. Students will draw comparisons between the processes of Haudenosaunee leadership and the laws and frameworks of the United States government as outlined in the Constitution.
Throughout this lesson, students will have the opportunity to learn about and experience the role that simple machines play in their daily lives. Students will examine various simple machines and what makes them go, and then participate in a school scavenger hunt to identify as many simple machines as they can.
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books have been immensely popular in the decades since the writer’s death. Using the NYS Historical Association’s history newsletter, “The Story of Almanzo Wilder: Farmer Boy, Part...