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Posted by Debi Duke
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on November 15, 2011 |
That's right. It's Geography Awareness Week.
Here are some quick activities including materials and sometimes video clips and other resources.
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The Mannahatta Project's unit is all about geography with 14 lessons for all ages.
2. Our Wet Schoolyard: Mapping Puddles, from the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, takes students outside for a fun and practical activity.
NYS DEC's Hudson River Estuary Program shares three activities for elementary students:
3. Study the New York State Amphibian and Reptile Atlas in Mapping Where Animals Live.
4. Learn where species nest and how their distributions have changed over time in These Maps Are For the Birds.
5. Use a relief map to answer questions about distance, direction, and natural features along the Hudson in Rivers Run Through It.
6. Secondary social studies units Diversity & Tolerance in the American Colonies and Diversity in New Netherland, feature "Mapping the Way We Were," "Mapping Diversity in Old and New Netherland," and "Mapping New York Place Names."
7. In "A Good Place for Settlement" and "Land Rights and Conflict" middle schoolers analyze settlement patterns and human interactions.
History of the Hudson River: Cultures and Landscapes is from National Geographic.
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Posted by Debi Duke
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on November 08, 2011 |
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What does the pumpkinseed in the bag pictured below have to do with changes in the zebra mussel population in the Hudson River? 
Join Cary Institute education staff (among the most popular presenters year after year at THV's summer institute) for a free workshop, Hudson River Food Webs. _____________________________
Tuesday, November 15, 4-7 p.m.
Computer Lab 313
Dutchess BOCES' Salt Point location
5 BOCES Road, Poughkeepsie
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Rooted in the Cary Institute's Changing Hudson Project, the workshop will highlight recent research on the zebra mussel invasion in the Hudson River and results for its ecosystem.
Presenters will share new evidence from Cary Institute scientists, along with ready-to-use lessons appropriate for upper elementary through high school students.
During the workshop participants will:
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Posted by Debi Duke
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on October 31, 2011 |
One week left to submit student writing about the Hudson Valley. Next Monday, Nov. 7, 9 a.m. is the deadline. BY POPULAR DEMAND, WE JUST EXTENDED THE DEADLINE THROUGH TODAY.
If you're looking for writing prompts to help spur students to enter THV's contest, here are a few inspired by Ms. DeSanti's Blog. Most can be adapted for different ages and needs.
1. Make a list of places in the Hudson Valley you want to remember. Describe one or more.
2. Pretend you have to introduce an alien to your favorite place in the Hudson Valley.
3. Pick a place you love. Think about why you love it and then write the "official 10-step guide" to creating a great place.
4. Show students a photo such as this one of Eleanor Roosevelt; ask them to write about a place they associate with the person pictured. Download this photo.
5. There are two kinds of places in the Hudson Valley. A: ________________ and B: ____________________. Fill in the blanks and then explain how/why all places fit into these categories.
6. Show students a picture of a plant or animal and ask them to write about a place in the Valley where it might be found. One source of pictures is InsideStory Flashcards -- free English vocabulary visuals for four levels, basic through SAT prep.
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Posted by Debi Duke
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on October 17, 2011 |
If you're a fan of NE Public Radio/WAMC, you may have heard Pete Seeger 's recording of Banks of Marble. Of course, Pete himself is part of Hudson Valley history. But so is the author of the song, Les Rice. Googling for Mr. Rice doesn't get you very far.
But if you go to the Smithsonian Institution's Folkways music section you can
download the liner notes from Seeger's 1958 album, Gazette, Vol. 1 for free. The notes, written by Irwin Silber, are illustrated with newspaper articles related to the songs along with quotes from Bhabavad Gita, Ben Franklin, and the Bible's Book of Kings, among others. You can also buy the song or the album at Folkways.
Anyway, if you read the liner notes, you'll discover that Les Rice lived here in the Hudson Valley: "In 1948, when the first of the post-war depressions (or recessions, if you choose) was being felt by millions of working people across the country, an apple farmer in Newburgh, N.Y., sat down and wrote a Song which, in the past ten years, has become something of a minor classic.
"Since the song was first introduced by Pete Seeger to a hootenanny audience in New York (and subsequently recorded by The Weavers in one of their pre-commercial releases), it has grown in popularity.
"In Canada, members of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union showed me verses which they added about their own working conditions and I have heard young people and workers sing it with enthusiasm and conviction in the belief that it is a traditional song of long standing rather than one of recent composition, which is its own tribute to the integrity and craft of the songwriter and his creation."
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