Chinese New Year - Brooklyn Children's Museum

Resources & Reference Materials
Correlations with New York State
Learning Standards
The activities in this guide meet the following
New York State learning standards:
The Arts
Standard 1: Students will actively engage in
the processes that constitute the creation and
performance in the arts and participate in
various roles in the arts.
Standard 2: Students will be knowledgeable
about and make use of the materials and
resources available for participation in the
arts.
Standard 4: Students will understand the
cultural contributions of the arts.
Social Studies
Standard 1: Students will demonstrate their
understanding of major ideas, eras, themes,
developments, and turning points in the
history of the United States and New York.
Standard 3: Students will 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.
ELA (English Language Arts)
Standard 1: As listeners and readers,
students will collect data, facts, and ideas;
discover relationships and concepts; and use
knowledge generated from oral, written, and
electronically produced texts.
Standard 2: Students will read and listen to
oral and written texts from American and
world literature and relate texts to their own
lives.
Standard 3: Students will listen, speak, and
write about their experiences and respond to
those presented by others.
Standard 4: Students will participate in
group meetings in which the student displays
appropriate turn-taking behaviors, offer their
own and solicit another’s opinion.
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