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A Stinking Smelly Sewer

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Students create a timeline of events that occurred in the Nashua River Valley as presented in the book, "A River Ran Wild." They write a description of a selected time period on an index card for a class timeline, and write a letter to a friend in another class that explains what happened to the geography of the Nashua River Valley during the timeline period.

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Grade
5th - 6th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
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For Teacher Use
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Project-Based Learning
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Year
1998

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