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LESSON PLANS:
Boot Camp
Brooklyn
Brooklyn History and Using the Internet
Cables and Redundancy
Discovering Africa in Brooklyn
Eastern Parkway: Function and Culture
Latin America
Structures
Africa
Mexico
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SYNOPSES & DOWNLOADS
The following lesson plans are each available in 3 formats; HTML for on-screen viewing; MS Word in a zip archive to allow you to edit the file yourself before printing it;
and Adobe Acrobat PDF for quick printing. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader for the latter format - click here to get it.
Brooklyn Expedition Boot Camp
by Elyse Doti, Teacher, Bronx Leadership Academy H.S.
The following lessons were designed specifically to introduce "new
explorers" to the Brooklyn Expedition site. The lessons serve as a
basic introduction to the site, aimed at familiarizing new explorers
with the layout and structure of the site.
HTML version | MS Word Version | PDF Version
Brooklyn
by Barbara Auerbach, School Media Specialist, New York City Public Schools
Using the Brooklyn theme of the Brooklyn Expedition as a model, students
explore their neighborhoods as well as Bedford-Stuyvesant, the setting for
Joan Blos's novel, Brooklyn Doesn't Rhyme. Their explorations take them back
in time to turn-of-the-century (20th) Brooklyn; they use primary and
secondary sources to learn about the borough, yesterday and today.
HTML version | MS Word Version | PDF Version
Brooklyn History and Using the Internet
by Angela O'Dowd, Technology Staff Developer in Community School District 22.
Using available computers in
the classroom to research and present information so that all students
are involved is the focus of this unit of lessons about Brooklyn's
History for 5-8th grade. Brooklynexpedition.org is the starting point
and activity sheets, technology prompts, suggested websites and product
samples will guide and motivate students to complete a variety of
multimedia projects including a newsletter, a Kidspiration web, and a
Powerpoint presentation.
HTML version | MS Word Version | PDF Version
Cables and Redundancy Lesson Plans
by Eva Rannestad, Physical Science Teacher, NYC Lab School
Physical science hands-on activity lesson plans for middle school
students which examine the structural integrity of bridges. The plans
also are appropriate for an examination of textiles physiology.
Concepts approached include: tension, compression, redundancy,
resiliency, and properties of materials.
HTML version | MS Word Version | PDF Version
Discovering Africa in Brooklyn
by Brenda Santos, Social Studies Teacher, Bronx Leadership Academy High School
This unit introduces middle-school students to the study of Africa using
the art and artifacts at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The lesson plans are
centered upon student inquiry and the construction of history using
primary sources.
HTML version | MS Word Version | PDF Version
Eastern Parkway - Function and Culture
by Linsey S. Johnson, Instructional Lead Teacher/Educator
An analytical look at one
of Brooklyn's most famous roads and its impact on the many communities
that it intersects. Grades 5 and up.
HTML version | MS Word Version | PDF Version
Latin America
by Antoinette Byam
The essential question of this unit is, "How might the resources of a given geographic location
influence the lifestyle of the people in that area?" The lessons in this
unit utilize artifacts from the Mesoamerican exhibit at the Brooklyn
Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Children's Museum. Visits to each of
these museums are highly recommended, though not essential, for the study.
HTML version | MS Word Version | PDF Version
Structures
by Evelyn Polesny, Writer-in-Residence and Staff Developer with Teachers and Writers
Collaborative; Teacher at Teachers College, Columbia University.
This unit uses as a foundation Brooklyn Expedition's "Structures," in
which students make connections between organisms and things as
seemingly disparate as frogs and bridges, skeletons and houses, the
Dewey Decimal System and the relationship between rabbits and kangaroos.
Investigating the connections among such a wide array of creatures and
things helps students learn how to make connections.
HTML version | MS Word Version | PDF Version
Other Lesson Plans coming soon;
Africa
by Victoria Missick, Journalist, Teacher
Mexico
by O'Mayra Cruz, Primary School 24 Brooklyn, New York
Grades 5-9
This collaboration of lessons focuses upon Mexico's past and present. It
includes the exploration of Mexican culture, traditions and history.
The lessons can be modified according to grade level.
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