Description
FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS NEW YORK LIBRARY LESSON
- Recommended for: Grades 2-5
- Lesson Duration: 1-2 library lessons (about 50 minutes total)
- Formats: PPT, Google Slides, PDF
- Editable: YES, all text is editable
THIS NEW YORK LIBRARY LESSON INCLUDES:
- 51-slide PPT + Google™ Slides library lesson presentation
- List of 38 recommended read-alouds that are set in New York City and New York state (1 page)
- Scavenger Hunt Activity (2 pages)
- Answer Key for Scavenger Hunt (1 page)
- Prep, set up, tips (6 pages, PDF only)
- Detailed, pre-filled, editable lesson plan; includes CC, TEKS, and AASL Standards (2 pages)
- Instructions on how to set up PPT and Google Slides timings for digital bulletin boards (2 pages, PDF only)
NEW YORK LIBRARY LESSON INCLUDES
- New York wildlife: black bear, eastern box turtle, snapping turtle, eastern bluebird, fisher, red fox, bald eagle, eastern coyote, and common loon
- ASL sign for “New York” and postal abbreviation “NY”
- Important cities in New York
- New York City versus New York state
- One of the 13 original colonies
- New York state flower: rose
- Landforms: Hudson River, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, Adirondak Mountains, Lake Placid, Niagara Falls
- Places of Interest: Empire State Building, National Baseball Hall of Fame, Broadway, Coney Island, Niagara Falls, Statue of Liberty, Central Park, Cohoes Mastodon
- New York idiom: “in a New York minute”
- New York foods: pizza, hot dogs, and bagels with lox
- Vocabulary: lake-effect snow, humid, omnivore, mastodon, upstate
- Climate, including hurricanes, flooding, and other extreme weather
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