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Students discuss resource maps and examine examples from library resources. Working in groups, they create edible resource maps by drawing examples, such as popcorn on the border of Iowa and Nebraska. Then they use cookies in the shape of the United States to place items, such as chocolate chips to represent coal.
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- 2nd Grade
Students investigate air and water as two sources of energy. They determine that wind and moving water are renewable resources that have advantages and disadvantages in their use. Through the design and construction of wind- and water-propelled devices, they identify factors that affect the motion and control of such devices.
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- 3rd - 5th Grade
Students explore scarcity and how all resources are limited. They also explore opportunity cost and identify productive resources.
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- 9th - 12th Grade
Students describe fuel resources: non-renewable and renewable. They distinguish between non-renewable and renewable fuel resources, give several examples, and create a graphic organizer using all of the information that they received in class. They use the internet for illustrations and/or pictures of each example.
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- 4th - 8th Grade
Students explore available research resources. In this literacy/resource lesson, students examine the format of resources such as a dictionary, a thesaurus, an atlas,etc. Students write an autobiographical sketch using each format to describe him/herself.
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- 5th - 8th Grade
Students write a travel article in the voice of a travel writer in 1910. They use the Florence Griswold Museum's on-line resources to go on a virtual "visit" to the Lyme Art Colony. They also use short biographies about the lives of the artists and newspaper articles published about the colony to develop their travel journals before writing the article..
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- 4th - 7th Grade
Students write and perform a short scene incorporating the various characters who were a part of the Griswold boardinghouse During the 1900s in Connecticut. They use the Florence Griswold Museum's on-line resources to gather information about the people of the art colony before creating and performing scene that incorporates the material.
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- 9th - 12th Grade
Students develop critical thinking and awareness about the complexity of natural resource use, wealth distribution, population densities, poverty, and the environment. They think about people living in different parts of the world and about the varying effects of population vs. consumption in rich and poor countries.
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- 10th - 12th Grade
Students role-play a meeting of the Elwha River council in which they present opposing views to council members on hydroelectric power and salmon fisheries resources. They brainstorm possible conflicts between various people in land-use issues then watch a video on land use in the Sipsey Wilderness area and read about the Elwha river to compile their presentations.
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- Kindergarten - 4th Grade
Students imagine being one of the painters in 1910 at the Lyme Art Colony in Connecticut. They use the Florence Griswold Museum's on-line resources to gather information about the daily life of artists at the boardinghouse then write a letter to Miss Florence using a historic voice. they also include a packing list of what they will need for their stay at the boardinghouse in 1910.
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