Education :: Secondary Touch/Talks
Duration: 45 minutes
Grade Level: 7th - 12th Grades
Availability: October to April
| Adirondack Peaks | ||
| The Adirondack Park is one of the nation's largest protected natural environments. How did this vast mountain range develop? How did logging, mining and the tourist industry affect the land and its inhabitants? Visit a fishing camp and a 19th century mine. NYS Standards: MST 4, 5; SS 1, 3, 4 |
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| Ancient Life: What is a fossil? | ||
| Ancient Life: What is a Fossil? is a two part touch talk. Students begin in the museum classroom with a discussion of fossilization in general followed by a discussion (illustrated with hands on specimens) of some of the ways in which fossils are formed. The second part of the lesson takes place in the Ancient Life fossil exhibit. Students can see how landmasses changed over time and follow the location of New York State at the plate tectonics video station. The skeleton and model of Coelophysis will be used to illustrate what can or cannot be learned from a fossil. Students will see NY's State Fossil, the Eurypterid and others if time allows. NYS Standards: MST 4, 6 |
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| Metro-Intro | ||
| How does a city grow from a trading port to a thriving metropolis? What problems do we face as the population expands and technology evolves? Visit the Wall Street stock exchange, rush to catch the crowded A-Train, and don't forget to shuffle your feet to Sesame Street. NYS Standards: SS 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 |
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| Native Peoples of New York | ||
| Take a journey into the past to meet the people who were the first inhabitants of New York. What kind of tools did they need to survive as hunters? What affect did the changing environment have on their way of life? Visit the three sisters then sit in a Mohawk Longhouse and listen while grandmother tells stories you can learn by. Don't forget to stop by and examine the artwork of today's Native Peoples in the Governor's Collection of Contemporary Native American Crafts. NYS Standards: SS 1, 3, 4 |
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| People of the Longhouse | ||
| Sit in a full-size reconstruction of a section of a Mohawk longhouse and discover why the longhouse was not just a place to live, but also a symbol of the Iroquois confederacy. Learn about the different responsibilities men and women had in the Iroquois village of 500 years ago and then explore the values of this still living culture. NYS Standards: SS 1, 3, 4 |
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