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New York Library Lesson – New York State Study – Presentation + Activity + Reads

$7.00

This New York Library Lesson features New York state symbols, places of interest, wildlife, landforms, foods, and more! Students learn about New York through fun facts, would you rathers, vocabulary words, trivia questions, and more! Designed as a library lesson, but can also be used in the classroom.

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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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