Course Resources & Weblinks:
NYS Archives Erie Canal Time Machine Resources
Erie Canal Primary & Secondary Sources:
- Clinton's Ditch NEH Seminar
- NYS Canal System
- NYS Canal System History and Education Page
- Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor
- Bibliography of the Erie Canal
- Erie Canal.org (hosted by Union College)
- 175th Anniversary of the Erie Canal (hosted by Union College)
- Erie Canal Videos
- Low Bridge Productions (Many Erie Canal Videos)
- Essays on the Erie Canal (from Dr. Larkin’s Reader)
- Short History of NYS Canals (Roy Finch)
- Erie Canal Museum: Working on the Erie Canal Digital Collection
- Inland Navigation: Connecting the New Republic (hosted by University at Virginia)
- Digging Clinton’s Ditch: the Impact of the Erie Canal (hosted by University at Virginia)
- Thomas Jefferson on Canals (hosted by Monticello)
- DeWitt Clinton’s 1816 Memorial to the State Legislature
- Diary of Thomas Woodcock, an Englishman, Traveling the Erie Canal (hosted by HistoryMatters)
- Diary of a Young Girl on the Erie Canal (hosted by Rochester Public Library)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Travels the Erie Canal (hosted by HistoryMatters)
- The Opening of the Erie Canal (Hosted by CUNY)
- Resources available via the Monroe County Library System (Rochester)
- EDSITEment lesson: James Madison and the Politics of Internal Improvements
- Excerpts from the Memoir of Cadwallader Colden on the construction of the Erie Canal
- Erie Canal and the Underground Railroad
- Erie Canal Minutes (WCNY – PBS affiliate)
- Short History of Erie Canal (Erie Canalway Heritage Corridor)
- Canal Stories: Videos (Erie Canalway Heritage Corridor)
- Checkered Game of Life (from Dr. Thornton’s presentation)
- NYS Population Statistics (Dr. Larkin)
- Evolution of the Canal Statistics (Dr. Larkin)
- Chronicling American History
- 2010 NYSHD Entry on the Erie Canal (BPS Student)
- 2012 NYSHD Entry on the Erie Canal (good embedded multimedia)
Other BPS/BTC Courses by Rich Pyszczek
Fall Session:
BPS New York State History Day (Click Here)
Winter Session:
Project Based Learning Course (Click Here)
Social Studies Web Tools (Click Here)
Spring Session:
Buffalo History Course (Click Here)
Buffalo History and Architecture (Click Here)
Summer Session:
Buffalo Waterfront History Course (Click Here)
Course Syllabus:
NYS Social Studies Standards (click here)
Standard 1: History of the United States and New York
use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.
Standard 2: World History
use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.
Standard 3: Geography
use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.
Standard 4: Economics
Use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the U.S. and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms.
Standard 5: Civics, Citizenship, and Government
Use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the U.S. and other nations; the U.S. Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.
use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.
Standard 2: World History
use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.
Standard 3: Geography
use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.
Standard 4: Economics
Use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the U.S. and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms.
Standard 5: Civics, Citizenship, and Government
Use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the U.S. and other nations; the U.S. Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.
P-12 Common Core Learning Standards Documents (click here)
On January 10th, 2011, the Board of Regents approved the recommended additions to the Common Core Learning Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy and Common Core Learning Standards for Mathematics, plus a new set of Prekindergarten Standards. The documents can be accessed below. Additional information about the P-12 Common Core Learning Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy is available on the EngageNY website at http://engageny.org
CCLS Shifts for ELA & Math (Click Here to Download)
NYSUT Rubric for APPR (2012 Edition) (Click Here to download)
Just as New York State's Teaching Standards describe effective practice, the NYSUT Teacher Practice Rubric reveals the state's broad standards in specific and focused terms. This rubric selected for use in the TED system approved by NYSED for use statewide by districts working to implement Annual Professional Performance Reviews.
NYS Social Studies Framework K-12 Introduction
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NYS Social Studies Framework Grades K-8
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NYS Social Studies Framework Grades 9-12
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