District: South Glens Falls CSD
Building: Ballard, Tanglewood, and Harrison Ave. Elem.
Author: Debbie Bover
Email: dbover@mum.neric.org
Title: Creative Writer
Platform: PC
Curriculum_Area: Social Studies
Grade_Level: 2
Standard 1 - History of the United States and New York (Elementary)
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.
1) The study of New York State and United States history requires an analysis of the development of American culture, its diversity and multicultural context, and the ways people are unified by many values, practices, and traditions.
2) Imprtant ideas, social and cultural values, beliefs, and traditions from New York State and United States history illustrate the connections and interactions of people and events across time and from a variety of perspectives.
* know the roots of American culture, its development from many different traditons, and the ways many people from a variety of groups and backgrounds played a role in it.
* gather and organize information about the traditions transmitted by various groups living in their neighborhood and community.
* recognize how traditions and practices were passed from one generation to another.
Students will apply their knowledge of the Cherokee alphabet and picture symbols in order create their own picture messages.
Students will then use their picture symbols to exchange messages with one another.
District: South Glens Falls CSD
Building: Tanglewood Elementary
Author: Mary Dalaba
Email: mdalaba@mum.neric.org
Title: Oregon Trail
Platform: PC
Curriculum_Area: Social Studies
Grade_Level: 5
Standard 1 - History of the United States and New York (Intermediate)
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.
2) Important ideas, social and cultural values, beliefs, and traditions from New York State and the United States history illustrate the connections and interactions of people and events across time and from a variety of perspectives.
* investigate key turning points in New York State and United States history and explain why these events or developments are significant.
* gather and organize information about important achievements and contributions of individuals and groups living in New York State and the United States.
Students will create a diary. The students will name a trail, destination, year of departure, the reasons for going west, the historical event that opened the territory for settlement and the reasons for choosing a certain person for a wagon master. They will also have to draw a map of the chosen trail.