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Ash Cans & Corn Fed Hares: Book One Of The Ny Explorer's Club, Corinne Flax
Ash Cans & Corn Fed Hares: Book One Of The Ny Explorer's Club, Corinne Flax
Graduate Student Independent Studies
Ash Cans & Corn Fed Hares is a work of semi-historical fiction (set in the present, dealing with facts of the past), which can be used in a classroom or in a home to help students/children forge connections with past and present. The book also helps students find and use some of the research resources available in New York. Ash Cans showcases alternative methods of information gathering in the context of adventure and mystery, while focusing on the importance of individual meaning-making.
Studying The Subway: An Interdisciplinary Study Of The New York City Subway For The First Grade, Eve Robinson
Studying The Subway: An Interdisciplinary Study Of The New York City Subway For The First Grade, Eve Robinson
Graduate Student Independent Studies
This thesis gives a rationale and overall framework for a four month interdisciplinary study of the New York City subway system for a first grade classroom. The unit will be based around field trips and interviews, where the students will gain hands-on knowledge that will later help them recreate their own "school subway system." Throughout the study, students will investigate all aspects of the subway system, from mapping to mosaics, from fares to fines. The study culminates in a student-led role play where children take on the jobs of subway workers and guide their parents through a system that they …