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INGENIOUS INVENTIONS Tourpre and Post INGENIOUS INVENTIONS TOUR Contents | Pre-Visit:Post-Visit: Ingenious Inventions Tour Ingenious Inventions Tour | Brooklyn Historical Society Dear Educator, Thank you for your interest in the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92. Education programs at BLDG 92 have been developed by our staff at Brooklyn Historical Society and support Common Core and NYS Standards. Activities in this curriculum were designed to com- plement the Ingenious Inventions tour at BLDG 92, although you may also use them to introduce your class to the Brooklyn Navy Yard without leaving the classroom. As you click through the following pages, you’ll find pre- and post-visit lesson plans complete with detailed Teacher’s Guides, glossaries, printable handouts and worksheets for your students, and extensions to reach all learners. To schedule a tour of BLDG 92 for your class, please contact our Education Department at 718-222-4111 ext. 241 or email us at or . We welcome your feedback! Please let us know what you think of these pre- and post-visit materials. Your input is important to us and will help us to develop future programs. Click here to fill out a brief survey about these activities: or email us with your thoughts. From all of us at BLDG 92 and Brooklyn Historical Society, we thank you for bringing the history of the Brooklyn Navy Yard into your classroom! Sincerely, Andrea Del Valle Director of Education Brooklyn Historical Society 2 Contents | Pre-Visit:Post-Visit: Ingenious Inventions Tour Ingenious Inventions Tour | Brooklyn Historical Society Supporters Education programs at Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92 are generously supported by Con Edison and Barclays/Nets Community Alliance. Brooklyn Historical Society is proud to partner with the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92 as the education programs advisor. Education programs at Brooklyn Historical Society are generously supported by Astoria Federal Savings, Barclays Capital, Barclays/Nets Community Alliance, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Brooklyn Community Foundation, Con Edison, Department of Youth and Community Development, The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, The Ferriday Fund, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, The Hearst Foundations, The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, Herman Goldman Foundation, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin, Moran Towing, JPMorganChase, National Grid Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Pine Tree Foundation of New York, Timothy Bradley, Tisch Illumination Fund, and the Verizon Foundation. Additional funding provided by New York City Council Members Letitia James, Brad Lander, Stephen Levin, Domenic Recchia, and Albert Vann. Credits Content for these materials developed by Beth Slepian in collaboration with the Education Department of Brooklyn Historical Society and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92 Staff. Education Department of Brooklyn Historical Society: Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92 Staff: Andrea Del Valle, Director of Education Daniella Romano, Vice President, BLDG 92 Exhibits and Programs Emily Potter-Ndiaye, Education Coordinator Aileen Chumard, Deputy Director, BLDG 92 Exhibits and Programs Samantha Gibson, Education Assistant Meredith Wisner, Assistant Director, Archives and Records Management Abigail Koffler, Intern Emilie Evans, Visitor Services Manager Design by Jane Barber Design Cover Image: Intelligent Whale; National Archives and Records Administration - Northeast Region, courtesy of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. © 2012, Brooklyn Historical Society 3 Contents | Pre-Visit:Post-Visit: Ingenious Inventions Tour Ingenious Inventions Tour | Brooklyn Historical Society at BLDG 92 Table of Contents Pre-Visit Lesson | Identities at the Brooklyn Navy Yard: An Innovation Investigation . p 05 Pre-Visit Worksheets & Activities Innovator Identities Interactive . p 11 Print Innovator Cards, Pre-Visit Activities and Worksheets . p Innovation Investigation Worksheet . p 13 Innovation Investigation Worksheet / Advanced . p 15 Answer Key for Worksheets . p 18 Innovator Bingo! Instructions . p Innovator Memory Match! Online Game . p Post-Visit Lesson | Identities at the Brooklyn Navy Yard: Connections Through TIme . p Post-Visit Worksheets Print Post-Visit Letter and Drawing Templates . p Connections Through TIme Letter Template A . p Extra Letter Page . p 30 Connections Through TIme Letter Template B . p 31 Connections Through TIme Drawing Template C . p 33 Model Letter . p Glossary . p 35 Resources . p Symbol Key = Interactive Feature = Printable Handouts 4 Contents | Pre-Visit:Post-Visit: Innovation Investigation: Pre-Visit Lesson Ingenious Inventions Tour | Brooklyn Historical Society Time Needed: 45 minutes (15 minutes discussion; 25 minutes activity; 5 minutes wrap-up) Essential Question: How have people and their ideas contributed to the evolution of Pre-Visit Lesson: the Brooklyn Navy Yard? Innovation Learning Objective: Students will use short biographies to gain an understanding of key Investigation players throughout the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s history, and to develop a broad understanding of how the Brooklyn Navy Yard has changed over time. Materials: Standards: New York State Social Studies Standard 1: History of the United States and New York New York State English Language Arts Standards: 1, 3, 4 Common Core Standards: College and Career Readiness (CCR) Anchor Standards for Reading: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10 5 Contents | Pre-Visit:Post-Visit: Innovation Investigation: Pre-Visit Lesson Ingenious Inventions Tour | Brooklyn Historical Society Discussion 1. Ask students: If you could have a job developing new technology, what kinds of products would you invent? For example, would you (types of ships, weapons, etc.) develop a cure for cancer, make a breakthrough in rocket science, or 7.Optional: Show students the map of the Brooklyn Navy Yard invent the newest and coolest kind of cell phone or computer? (next page) or link to the map at the Navy Yard’s websit 2. Next, imagine a place (real or imaginary) that is known for devel- oping such cutting-edge technology. What kinds of companies and Ask students: technological ideas come to mind? (Examples: Facebook, a medical research lab, electric car manufacturers, LA Gear - the company that (strategically located near the East River, Atlantic Ocean, and made the first light-up sneakers, NASA, the iPad) NYC’s five boroughs) 3. Have students share their ideas for numbers one and two, What do you think the different buildings are used for? above. Explain that all these new ideas and products are examples of innovation: a new method, idea or product. What do you think a dry dock is? (seen as dark blue areas on the map) 4. Then, ask students: what if I told you that New York City (or Brook- lyn) is home to a place that has been a leader in innovation for Note: it’s okay if students don’t know the answers to these questions. more than two hundred years? That place is the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Explain to students that we will investigate these questions through today’s lesson and our visit to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. 5. Explain to students that today we will be learning about the kinds of innovations that have been developed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, both in the past and present. These innovations may differ from A dry dock is a narrow basin where boats are repaired. Water is some of the technological advancements mentioned above, yet pumped out to allow access to the bottom of the boat; after the their effects have been equally significant. boat is fixed, water is pumped back in so the boat may sail away. 6. Ask students: Navy? (One of the 5 branches of the military, the U.S. Navy works on ships at sea. Its mission is to “maintain, train and equip combat- ready Naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggres- sion and maintaining freedom of the seas.”) 6 Contents | Pre-Visit:Post-Visit: Innovation Investigation: Pre-Visit Lesson Ingenious Inventions Tour | Brooklyn Historical Society 61 Entrance Gates Pier J 1 Sands Street Pier K Division Ave. 2 Cumberland Street Pedestrians 3 Vanderbilt–Pedestrians-only Kay St. Pier G Williamsburg Bridge 4 Clinton Avenue Railroad Ave. 249 5 South Street 594 270 6 Clymer Street Hammerhead Ave. 292 NYC Department of Sanitation Marshall St. Wallabout Bay 51 52 Clymer St. John St. Wythe Ave. Railroad Ave. Pier C Taylor St. Plymouth St. 7 DCAS Little St. Wilson St. Gee Ave. Auto Auction Evans St. NYC Water Pollution Kent Ave. Water St. Control Plant Front Ave. 8 293 Wallabout Road Ross St. Pier D 268 313 Front St. 234 Dry Dock 6 Hudson Ave. Dry Dock 5 Rodney St. 314 500 Morris Avenue 269 Keap St. Dock Ave. York St. Dry Dock 3 274 700 F train Second St. 664 York Street NYPD 10 Dry Dock 1 Hooper St. Tow Pound 11 Morris Avenue Dry Dock 2 Steiner Chauncey St. Studios 12 12B 11A 131 20 62 Market Street Assembly Road 300 Third St. Warrington Ave. Washington Avenue 127 Brooklyn Bridge Welding Road 22 Dry Dock 4 Sands St. Sands Street Fourth St. A/C train 25 Market Street High Street 41 6 128 Paulding St. 132 Fifth St. Perry Ave. 5 Fourth St. Ordinance Ave. Federal Property 58 Farragut St. Navy St. Sixth Street 152 120 74 280 42 Williamsburg Place 77 Federal 4 Manhattan Bridge 275 50A 50 46 Property 1 30 264 3 2 Nassau St. 27 Seventh Ave. 92 Eighth Ave. Ninth Ave. 14th Street Flushing Ave. South Street Avenue Clinton South Street 312 592 p m a r - n o E Q Commodore Barry Park B Ex it St. Stuben s 2 9 train G Clinton Ave. Clinton / Ave. Carlton North Oxford St. Oxford North Vanderbilt Ave. Vanderbilt Grand Ave. Grand 2 Place Elliot North Cumberland St. Cumberland Clermont St. Clermont Adelphi St. Adelphi Ryerson St. Ryerson Hall St. Hall North Portland Ave. Portland North 9 Ave. Waverly Washington Ave. Washington B Ave. Clinton - B roo klyn C 69 7 Contents | Pre-Visit:Post-Visit: Innovation Investigation: Pre-Visit Lesson Ingenious Inventions Tour | Brooklyn Historical Society Main Activity: Modifications for Innovation Investigation Success with All Learners 1.
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