{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"52136636","dateCreated":"1332729604","smartDate":"Mar 25, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"RobbieCa","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/RobbieCa","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/integratingculture-at-nyu.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/52136636"},"dateDigested":1532760525,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"The First \u201cGreen\u201d Museum in NYC: The Brooklyn Children\u2019s Museum Expansion (Sept. 2008)","description":"The First \u201cGreen\u201d Museum in NYC: The Brooklyn Children\u2019s Museum Expansion
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\nPHASE ONE:
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\nIn September of 2008, the Brooklyn Children\u2019s Museum opened a new wing of its museum that was built as a \u201cgreen building\u201d. The building uses geothermal wells for heating and cooling, has recycled materials throughout it\u2019s exhibits, has solar panels to convert sunlight into electricity, and was built with green materials.
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\nI chose this topic because after visiting the Brooklyn Children\u2019s Museum for a class, I was very impressed with their initiative to go green. They make learning about green building fun and integrated recycling into their exhibits. The museum is a great resource for teachers.
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\nPHASE TWO:
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\nhttp:\/\/www.brooklynkids.org\/index.php\/aboutus\/greenmuseum<\/a>
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\nThis website is the Brooklyn Children\u2019s museum website that explains all of the ways their new building meets Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design\u2019s (LEED) requirements to be a green building. The high-performance sustainable features listed on this website include: geothermal heating and cooling system, solar energy, energy-saving sensors, carbon dioxide sensors, occupancy sensors, daylight sensors and renewable and recyclable materials. It also discusses the reduction in operating costs as a result of their green building.
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\nhttp:\/\/inhabitat.com\/the-renovated-brooklyn-childrens-museum\/<\/a>
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\nThis website has pictures of the new building and further explanation of the recyclable materials used within the building. The floor is made up of recycled bamboo and rubber. Some of the exhibits this article mentions that relate to \u201cgoing green\u201d initiatives include \u201cWorld Brooklyn\u201d, an exhibit that showcases the borough\u2019s diversity, and \u201cNeighborhood Nature\u201d which gives children a taste of the natural habitats that exist in Brooklyn.
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\nhttp:\/\/broadwayworld.com\/article\/Brooklyn_Childrens_Museum_Declared_NYCs_First_Green_Museum_On_423_20100422<\/a>
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\nThis article explains how the Brooklyn Children\u2019s Museum is officially the \u201cfirst green museum in New York.\u201d It explains that the project was an $80 million renovation and expansion endeavor that took almost ten years. However, the museum was doubled in size because of the expansion. This quote is from one of the architects highlighted in the article; \u201cWe are proud to have supported the Museum in their mission with an integrated paradigm of sustainability based on the fundamentals of cultural, economic, and energy efficiency and on technical innovations and solutions that extend beyond applied technology\u201d
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\nPHASE THREE:
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\nHow to Take Your Grandmother to the Museum by Molly Rose Goldman
\nhttp:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Take-Your-Grandmother-Museum\/dp\/0761109900<\/a>
\nAlthough this book is about the American Museum of Natural History and not the Brooklyn Children\u2019s Museum, this book will get students excited about traveling to a museum and what museums can offer. This book follows a young girl who brings her grandmother to the American Musuem of Natural History. With pictures from the actual museum, the book travels through different exhibit and shows students not only what museums have but also how to act in a museum. This is a fiction book.
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\nhttp:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Building-Green-Places-Designing-Green-Collar\/dp\/0778748634\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332729321&sr=1-2<\/a>
\nBuilding Green Places: Careers in Planning, Designing, and Building by Ruth Owen
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\nThis book has great photographs and information about designing and building green buildings. The book has pages about solar energy, recyclable materials and geothermal energy. Many of the strategies for developing green buildings found in this book were also used in the construction of the Brooklyn Children\u2019s Museum. This is a non-fiction book.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"52135190","dateCreated":"1332727369","smartDate":"Mar 25, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"RobbieCa","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/RobbieCa","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/integratingculture-at-nyu.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/52135190"},"dateDigested":1532760525,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Solar Panels at the Stillwell Avenue Subway Station in Brooklyn","description":"Phase One:
\nNew York City completed building it\u2019s first solar-powered train terminal in 2005 at the Stillwell Avenue subway station in Brooklyn. The roof of the train station is covered with solar panels that account 60% of the station\u2019s power.
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\nI was interested in this topic because I think initiatives to \u201cgo green\u201d and find sustainable energy are incredibly important topics to teach in school. Finding local initiatives are great educational resources for teachers.
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\nPhase Two:
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\nhttp:\/\/www.sustainablebusiness.com\/index.cfm\/go\/news.display\/id\/6388<\/a>
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\nThis is an article titled \u201cCity's First Solar Subway Station Hails Eco-Transportation\u201d. The article says that the \u201cnewly reconstructed Stillwell Avenue subway station in Brooklyn has become the city's first solar-powered train terminal\u201d. It explains that 2,730 photovoltaic panels were attached to the roof of the subway to provide electricity for the station. The panels contribute 60% of the station\u2019s power.
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\nhttp:\/\/www.ny1.com\/content\/top_stories\/53983\/stillwell-avenue-subway-station-powered-by-solar-panels<\/a>
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\nThis article has a video of Brooklyn residents\u2019 reactions to the solar panels and a brief description of what the panels are doing for the station. The power generated by the station could power 40 houses in New York State for a year. Everything is powered by solar energy in this station except for the third rail. The video is 1:43 minutes and has a lot of information about solar panels and the train station itself.
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\nhttp:\/\/www.mta.info\/nyct\/facts\/ffenvironment.htm<\/a>
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\nThis section of the mta website includes information about environmental policy, sustainable development, the green building program, environmental sustainability, how NYC transit conserves electricity and water, and the clean fuel bus program. It also provides statistics about how much energy is saved by New Yorkers using the subway instead of driving into the city every day.
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\nPhase Three:
\nMy Subway Ride, by: Paul DuBois Jacobs
\nhttp:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Subway-Ride-Paul-DuBois-Jacobs\/dp\/1586853570<\/a>
\nThis text takes place in the New York City subway system and follows a family through different areas of the city (including Brooklyn\u2019s Coney Island). From this story, students can understand why people take the subway and how large the NYC subway system really is. My Subway Ride goes all the way from Yankee Stadium in the Bronx to Coney Island in Brooklyn with several stops in Manhattan. Although based on real places, this is a fiction book.
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\nA Kid's Guide to Global Warming, by: Glenn Murphy
\nhttp:\/\/www.amazon.com\/A-Kids-Guide-Global-Warming\/dp\/1435105915\/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332727355&sr=1-7<\/a>
\nA Kid\u2019s Guide to Global Warming introduces children to why it is so important to reduce carbon emissions and recycle. This is a great book to teach alongside the solar panels on the Stillwell Avenue subway station in Brooklyn because it discusses cleaner energy and cleaner transportation (pages 40-44). There is a diagram of a solar cell that explains how sunlight is converted into current flow to produce electricity and has photographs of solar panels. The section on cleaner transportation shows how much energy is used to power city buses and subways. This is a non-fiction book.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"52001630","dateCreated":"1332390679","smartDate":"Mar 21, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"KatherineROD","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/KatherineROD","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1334072334\/KatherineROD-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/integratingculture-at-nyu.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/52001630"},"dateDigested":1532760525,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Topics ","description":"The topics I wanted to choose for research involving Brooklyn, are the following:
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\nNY Aquarium, it's very interesting to note how the aquarium came to be and specifically the importance behind having an animal preservation area. Not many parts of NY are animal friendly, especially during the mid 1900s so when I learned about the desire to keep the area-which had once been located in battery park, Manhattan-the topic interested me even more.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"52001638","body":"http:\/\/www.nyaquarium.com\/<\/a>","dateCreated":"1332390728","smartDate":"Mar 21, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"KatherineROD","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/KatherineROD","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1334072334\/KatherineROD-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"52002126","body":"Another Topic I'm focusing on involves the Green-Wood Cemetery and the history behind this place. Cemeteries contain aspects of the past. One example, involves a chance the change in headstones. Headstones dating in the past often have more description on an individual's death and state the reason for passing. Meanwhile, present-day headstones only demonstrate the time period a person lived.
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\nFor more information on the historic cemetery check out this link:
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\nThis is a link to a short youtube movie about the Brooklyn Flea Market. It is a great primary source because it speaks to what the market is like, physically, without having to be physically there.
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\nhttp:\/\/www.brooklynflea.com\/category\/news\/<\/a>
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\nThis is a great primary source that shares an ongoing blog about the Brooklyn Flea Market's updates and press that advertises it.
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\nhttp:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/0\/03\/BK_Rugby_crest.jpg\/220px-BK_Rugby_crest.jpg<\/a>
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\nThis picture is a great example of a primary source because it speaks to Brooklyn Rugby team's team crest. It illustrates the pride and individuality of the team itself, as well as demonstrates detail in the team colors and city.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"50525316","dateCreated":"1329301621","smartDate":"Feb 15, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"klb409","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/klb409","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/integratingculture-at-nyu.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/50525316"},"dateDigested":1532760525,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Topics","description":"1. January 11, 2006 \u2013 seven year-old Nixzmary Brown dies after being beaten by her stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, in their Brooklyn apartment. This was highly publicized and brings up a number of very important issues that we as teachers much deal with, particularly child abuse.
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\n2. (I have not found anything yet)","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"51966036","body":"2. 2006 - Bunker discovered from the Cold War. A bunker, still containing emergency supplies, was discovered not too far off the East River shoreline. At first this seemed like a fairly insignificant event. However, in thinking of our recent trips and the importance of experiencing things first hand, I thought that this could be very useful in providing students with a real-life tangible experience of something that happened so long ago and may be hard for students to really grasp.","dateCreated":"1332340183","smartDate":"Mar 21, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"klb409","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/klb409","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"50215536","dateCreated":"1328670680","smartDate":"Feb 7, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"ragrawal89","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ragrawal89","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/integratingculture-at-nyu.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/50215536"},"dateDigested":1532760525,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Topics (1\/2)","description":"1. September 11, 2001 - Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center. I want to do this as this is an event that changed everyone's lives. Especially those in New York. As Brooklyn is a borough in the New York, it is important to learn about what the impact of 9\/11 was on the residents of Brooklyn.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"50207056","dateCreated":"1328660914","smartDate":"Feb 7, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"Zoeirene90","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Zoeirene90","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1316988746\/Zoeirene90-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/integratingculture-at-nyu.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/50207056"},"dateDigested":1532760525,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Topics","description":"1. Brooklyn Flea Market: Founded in April 2008, a major New York City attraction that is open every weekend of the year! I am interested in the Brooklyn Flea Market because it has become such a big deal over the past 4 years, now having over 100 vendors
\nhttp:\/\/www.brooklynflea.com\/about\/<\/a>
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\n2. Brooklyn Rugby Football Club: Founded in 2007. I am interested in this because I didn't realize the prevalence and popularity of rugby in Brooklyn or America! As it is growing, it is sponsored by The Black Grouse, and are fundraising as an organization to fight childhood cancer.
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