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New York State of Mind: Introduction

• New York is a city of neighborhoods and you never know what treasures you can find in these neighborhoods and you never know who you just might bump into. For this web quest, you will be part of a group that travels through the City of New York. You will explore the treasures of some of New York’s neighborhoods: the people, the museums, bridges/subway stations, and sports venues. The City of New York encompasses more than just Midtown Manhattan. As a class, we will come to appreciate and explore our entire city and find the treasures that make New York the greatest city in the world.

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• You are about to journey through New York City. You will discover and uncover the rich history your city has to offer!

• Step 1- Your teacher will divide you into groups, 4 members per group.

• Step 2- Each group member will select a web quest topic to search on their own (Neighborhoods, Sports, Museums, Transit and Transportation)

• Step 3- Follow the directions for your chosen topic, once you have answered each question you will then write a short summary for each location you visit.

• Step 4- As a group you will share your findings

• Museums• The People of New York• Sports• Transportation & Transit

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• Museums• The People of New York• Sports• Transportation & Transit

• Printable Map on NYC

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Evaluation Rubric

• Group Map: (20)• Individual Historical Descriptions & Picture: (25)• Guideline Questions: (15)• Total Group Effort: (15)• TOTAL: (75)

• Grading Scale:• 75 – 68 = A• 67 – 60 = B• 59 – 52 = C• 51 – 45 = D

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Evaluation Rubric:Group Map

Incorporates brief history and photo/picture from each group member

Viewer of the map can understand just how much New York City has to offer

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Group Map Total:

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Evaluation Rubric: Individual Historical Descriptions &

Picture

Historical descriptions are historically accurate

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Historical descriptions relate to researched aspect of New York City

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Historical descriptions are grammatically correct – no errors

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Pictures are appropriate & appealing (5)

Classmates can learn about researched aspect of New York City

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Sub Total: (25)

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Evaluation Rubric: Guideline Questions

Answers clearly demonstrate research of websites and suggested links

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All group members complete guideline questions (5)

All guidelines questions are answered with detail (5)

Sub Total (15)

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Evaluation Rubric: Combined Group Effort

All group members contributed to completion of tasks and final product

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All group members remained on task throughout (5)

Final product demonstrates students’ pride in their work

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Sub Total (15)

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Transportation & Transit

• New York City is made up of five boroughs: Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx and Staten Island. Each of these boroughs are dependent on each other. We would not be able to get from place to place without bridges and tunnels that connect each borough. These bridges and tunnels are extremely important to our everyday lives. Please look at the websites of a few of the bridges and tunnels. You will learn why each was built, who they were named after and where the bridges are located. Be sure to take a look at the map to locate each bridge and tunnel you read about. Have fun!

• Throgs Neck Bridge• Verazano Bridge • Queens Midtown Tunnel• Brooklyn Battery Tunnel• Henry Hudson Bridge

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Transportation & Transit Throgs Neck Bridge

• http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/bandt/html/throgs.htm• Why was the Throgs Neck Bridge built?• Who was the bridge named after?• Which two New York City boroughs does the bridge connect?

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Transportation & Transit: Verazano Bridge

• http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/bandt/html/veraz.htm• What was the Verazano’s claim to fame when it first opened in

1964?• Where are the ends of the bridge?• What does it connect to in Brooklyn?• Which Bay is the bridge located in?

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Transportation & Transit: Queens Midtown

Tunnel• http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/bandt/html/qmt.htm

• Why was the Queens Midtown tunnel opened?• Who was the engineer?• Why is the tunnel larger than the Holland tunnel?• What two boroughs does the tunnel connect?

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Transportation & Transit: Brooklyn Battery Tunnel

• http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/bandt/html/bbt.htm• What was the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel’s claim to fame when it first

opened in 1950?• What provides air change to the tunnel every one and a half

minutes? Where are these sites located?• Why did it take a decade to build this tunnel?• Where is this tunnel located?

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Henry Hudson Bridge• http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/bandt/html/bbt.htm

• What was the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel’s claim to fame when it first opened in 1950?

• What provides air change to the tunnel every one and a half minutes? Where are these sites located?

• Why did it take a decade to build this tunnel?• Where is this tunnel located?

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Transportation & Transit

• http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/bandt/html/henry.htm• Why was the bridge named after Henry Hudson?• Why was a second level built?• What was the Hudson Bridge’s claim to fame when it was first

opened?• Which directions does traffic move on the bridge?

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Museums

• New York City is home to a number of different cultures and different people. There are over 100 different museums in the city. New York City’s museums help preserve the city’s history and make it accessible to the community. In this part of your WebQuest please pick one museum and use the questions that follow as a guide to writing a brief summary of the site you chose.

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Museums:New York Transit Museum

• http://gonyc.about.com/od/ntoqmuseums/• http://mta.info/mta/museum/general.htm• http://mta.info/mta/museum/general.htm#hours• http://mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm• http://www.transitmuseumeducation

.org/tokenviewer/map1938.html• http://mta.info/nyct/maps/submap.htm

• Write a summary of what you have learned about the New York Transit Museum. Consider the following:

• What are the new exhibitions at the Transit Museum and the Gallery Annex?

• Describe two similarities and two differences you can notice when comparing the 1938 Subway map and the 2006 subway map.

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Museums:New York Transit Museum

• http://gonyc.about.com/od/ntoqmuseums/• http://mta.info/mta/museum/general.htm• http://mta.info/mta/museum/general.htm#hours• http://mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm• http://www.transitmuseumeducation

.org/tokenviewer/map1938.html• http://mta.info/nyct/maps/submap.htm

• Write a summary on what you have learned about the New York Transit Museum. Consider the following:

• What are the new exhibitions at the Transit Museum and the Gallery Annex?

• Describe two similarities and two differences you can notice when comparing the 1938 Subway map and the 2006 subway map.

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Museums:New York Transit Museum

• http://gonyc.about.com/od/ntoqmuseums/• http://mta.info/mta/museum/general.htm• http://mta.info/mta/museum/general.htm#hours• http://mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm• http://www.transitmuseumeducation

.org/tokenviewer/map1938.html• http://mta.info/nyct/maps/submap.htm

• Write a summary on what you have learned about the New York Transit Museum. Consider the following:

• What are the new exhibitions at the Transit Museum and the Gallery Annex?

• Describe two similarities and two differences you can notice when comparing the 1938 Subway map and the 2006 subway map.

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Museums: Lower East Side Tenement Museum

• http://www.tenement.org/directions.html• http://gonyc.about.com/od/htommuseums/• http://www.tenement.org/folksongs/client/• http://www.tenement.org/folksongs/help/• http://www.tenement.org/education.html• http://www.tenement.org/tours.html

• Write a summary of what you have learned about the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Consider the following:

• Experiment making your own folk song using sounds taken from New York’s Lower East Side.

• What are the four categories the recordings fall under?• What would you learn if you went to the “Getting By:

Immigrants Weathering Hard Times”, “Piecing it Together”, and “The Confino Program” exhibits?

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Museums: New York Hall of

Science• http://gonyc.about.com/od/ntoqmuseums/• http://www.nyscience.org/index.php• http://www.nyscience.

org/nyhs-visitor-groupinfo/vi-directions.html• http://www.nyscience.org/index.php http://www.nyscience.

org/nyhs-exhibits/e-connections_networks.html

• Write a summary of what you have learned about the New York Hall of Science. Consider the following:

• Read over the descriptions for the following gallery exhibitions: Creepy, Crawly Clues!, Art is an Unexpected Place, Once, Twice, Three Times and Android, and Where Art Meets Science. Which one would you most like to visit? Why?

• What is a network? Give an example of a network?

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Sports

• New York is a city with a rich and distinguished sports history. New York is home to the “World’s Most Famous Arena” and the “Cathedral” of all ballparks. From the most successful sports franchise, the New York Yankees, to arguably the greatest boxing match of all-time, Ali vs. Frazier in 1971, New York has seen it all. Great athletes such as Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Tom Seaver, Willie Mays, Lawrence Taylor, Phil Simms, Mark Messier, Wayne Gretzky, Patrick Ewing, Walt “Clyde” Frazier, John McEnroe, and Andre Agassi have all competed in New York. While baseball is New York’s most popular sport, New York also has professional hockey, basketball, soccer, and football teams. New York is host to professional tennis championships, a segment of horseracing’s Triple Crown, track & field, and marathons.

• Your task is to visit one of the following sports venues in New York Answer the questions assigned to each venue by visiting the suggested websites. Then using the questions as a guide, write a brief history of the venue and place that write-up and a picture of the venue on your group’s New York City map.

• Madison Square Garden • Yankee Stadium • Shea Stadium• USTA National Tennis Center• ING New York City Marathon Route

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Sports: Madison Square Garden

• http://www.thegarden.com• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden• http://www.cablevision.com/index.j• html;jsessionid=HYR52KYEX2D0KCQFSALSFEQ?pageType=msg

• What are some of the sporting events held at this venue? What teams play here?

• What are some on the non-sporting events held at this venue?

• What is the seating capacity for Knick games? What about Ranger games?

• How many Madison Square Gardens have there been? Where were they located?

• Who is the only non-sports figure to have his ﾒ number ﾓ retired at Madison Square Garden?

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Sports: Yankee Stadium

• http://yankees.com• http://www.ballparks.com/baseball/american/yankee.htm• http://www.ballparks.com/baseball/american/nyybpk.htm• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Stadium

• When was Yankee Stadium opened?• Why is it called the House that Ruth Built?• What is the seating capacity today?• Why is left-center field called Death Valley?• Name 3 players whose numbers have been retired in

Monument Park.

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Sports: Shea Stadium

• http://mets.com • http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/nl/Shea%20Stadium.htm• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shea_Stadium• http://www.ballparkdigest.com/visits/shea_stadium.htm

• Who is Shea Stadium named after?• Why do fans constantly hear planes over the stadium?• What is the seating capacity of Shea Stadium?• What rock-n-roll Hall of Fame band played Shea Stadium on

August 15, 1965?• What numbers have the Mets retired?

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Sports: USTA National Tennis

Center• http://www.usta.com• http://www.USOpen.org

• What Grand Slam event is held at the USTA National Tennis Center? When does it take place in 2006?

• Who is the center court named after? Why?• If you win the Singles Championship, what is your prize

money? • Which player has one the most career matches at the

National Tennis Center?• If you had an appetite for Cuban food, which restaurant

would you frequent at the National Tennis Center?

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Sports: New York City Marathon

• http://www.nycmarathon.org/home/index.php• http://www.nyrr.org/nyrrc/org/home.html• http://www.nyc.gov/html/sports/html/nyc_marathon.html

• How many miles is the NYC Marathon?• Where was the first NYC Marathon held?• Name all the bridges runners must cross in order to

finish the marathon.• How many people applied to be a NYC Marathon runner in

2005?• Who holds the record for most New York City marathon

wins?

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The People of New York

• Brooklyn• The Bronx• Manhattan• Staten Island• Queens

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The People of New York: Brooklyn

• http://www.smalltownbrooklyn.com/overview.html• http://www.smalltownbrooklyn.com/boerumhill/boerumhome.html#about• http://www.smalltownbrooklyn.com/bklynheights/heightshome.html• http://www.smalltownbrooklyn.com/carrollgardens/carrollhome.html• http://www.smalltownbrooklyn.com/cobblehill/cobblehome.html• http://www.smalltownbrooklyn.com/parkslopeN/PslopeNhome.html• http://www.smalltownbrooklyn.com/windsorterrace/windsorhome.html• http://www.visitbrooklyn.org/be_guided_brooklyn_history.html• http://www.brooklynexpedition.org/brooklyn/Default.htm

• What are the six neighborhoods of Brooklyn? Give a summary of each neighborhood.

• Summarize the history of Brooklyn.• Why are the Schenck house, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Brooklyn

Museum of Art important?

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The People of New York: The Bronx

• https://www.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=BCHSB&Product_Code=COOK&Category_Code=

• http://www.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/• http://www.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/about/Bronxhistorychron.html• http://www.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/about/abrieflookatbronx.html• http://www.bronxarts.org/index.asp• https://www.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&

Store_Code=BCHSB&Product_Code• http://www.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/about/abrieflookatbronx.html

• Describe the different groups of people that lived in the Bronx and what they contributed to Bronx’s “cuisine”.

• Summarize the history of the Bronx.

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The People of New York: Manhattan

• http://www.nycvisit.com/content/index.cfm?pagePkey=436• http://www.nycvisit.com/content/index.cfm?pagePkey=435 • http://www.nycvisit.com/content/index.cfm?pagePkey=440• http://www.nycvisit.com/content/index.cfm?pagePkey=444

• Summarize the history of Chinatown, Harlem, Little Italy, SoHo and Tribeca. Describe what makes each a unique part of Manhattan.

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The People of New York: Staten Island

• http://163.238.8.180/siias/Stapleton/• http://www.nycvisit.com/content/index.cfm?pagePkey=434• http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyrichmo/si_history.html• How is present day Stapleton different from Stapleton in

the past?• What is the history of the tourist attractions in Staten

Island?• Summarize the history of Staten Island.

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The People of New York: Queens

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http://www.nycvisit.com/content/index.cfm?pagePkey=432http://www.queensbp.org/content_web/depts/tourism/history.htmlhttp://www.queenschamber.org/QueensInfo/history.html• What are some of the different cultures of the people who live

in the different parts of Queens?• Summarize the history of Queens.• Why was the opening of the Queensboro Bridge so important to

the people of Queens?

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