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NY State Standards
LESSON PLAN SUMMARY
Copake Iron Works, Post-Visit Lesson, Sustainable Forestry and Water Conservation

Destination
Taconic State Park - Copake Falls Area
Raymond Doherty
(518) 329-3993

253 State Route 344
PO Box 100
Copake Falls, NY 12517
http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/83/details.aspx
County Columbia
Subjects Social Studies, Science, Math
Grades 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
Author Fran Martino, Taconic State Park

Students engage in hands-on activities to calculate the amount of fresh water available on Earth, and play a game simulating society's use of renewal and non-renewable resources. You can use this lesson for discussion following a trip to Copake Iron Works. It can also be used to cultivate students' abilities to analyze, categorize, calculate, compose, represent, predict, and/or summarize. Can be done inside or outside.