Cityscape
In this provocation, students will engage in a creating their own city or town, develop their map skills and understand common community helpers.
Objective:
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Can you create an imaginary city or town with buildings, roads and homes?
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Can you design a map of your town?
Problem-solving and strategic thinking:
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Students will use materials provided to build a model of a complete cityscape or town
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Students will label and/or create signs to identify roads and buildings
Standards/Objectives addressed:
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CIV K.1 Describe roles and responsibilities of people in authority (local/state/national e.g., judge, mayor, governor, police)
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CIV K.2 Explain how all people, not just official leaders, play an important role in a community.
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CIV K.3 Describe how communities work to accomplish common tasks, establish responsibilities, and fulfill roles of authority.
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.5: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
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CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.A.1: Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes.
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NGSS.K-PS2-1: Plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object.
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NGSS.K-2-ETS1-2: Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.
Background knowledge needed:
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How to make a plan - sketch a design
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Understanding of cities, towns, roads
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Community background: who and what makes a community?
Materials:
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Blocks, legos, cardboard, tape, paper, recycled materials, items from nature
Prompts – questions or statements to elicit engagement:
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Who will live/work in your town? How will they get from place to place?
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How will people know where to find people and places in your town/city?
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What about rivers? How do they change the layout of your city?
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What materials could you use for….?
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What things need more space?
Vocabulary:
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map, city, town, community, design, structure, blue print, water way, road
Reflection prompts:
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What worked well? What part of your design do you like best or would you change? Why?
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When you made your design, how did you decide where things should go?
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Can you give me a tour of your town?
Extension:
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What worked well? What part of your design do you like best or would you change? Why?
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When you made your design, how did you decide where things should go?
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Can you give me a tour of your town?