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LEARNING RESOURCESClassroom Resources |
CLASSROOM RESOURCESPlanning and the Built EnvironmentAmerican Planning AssociationAPA provides information and activities for kids interested in their cities and towns, teachers who would like to introduce an awareness of planning issues into the classroom, and planners who are visiting schools to talk about their jobs. The site contains curriculum and lesson plans, a resource bank of websites publications, and activities and a website to help youth explore their community. [APA: Youth and Teachers] Chicago Architecture Foundation: The Architecture Handbook: A Student Guide to Understanding BuildingsThe Architecture Handbook focuses on the design and construction of residential architecture for high school students. Through hands-on activities, it teaches both the fundamentals of architectural design and technical drawing. Students also build knowledge and gain skills through group design projects, sketching, model-making, mapping, research, critical thinking, problem solving, and class presentations. [The Architecture Handbook] Chicago Architecture Foundation: Schoolyards to SkylinesSchoolyards to Skylines is a resource book of 47 lessons for teachers in Kindergarten - 8th grade, using both famous and lesser-known buildings, sites, people, and events in Chicago as tools for teaching units in social sciences, science, mathematics, language arts, and fine arts. Each lesson strengthens the fundamental educational skills of students and is solidly based on state and city academic standards. [Schoolyards to Skylines] Chicago Metropolis 2020: Metro JoeLike the promoters of Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, who introduced ideas about great city planning to students through the Wacker Manual, Metro Joe’s Interactive Guide to the Chicago Region, enhances student understanding of the people, geography and development of the Chicago region. Geared toward 7-10th grade students, the lesson plans and activities engage students in exploring their communities and learning how they can shape the future. [Metro Joe] National Park Service — Chicago's Columbus Park: The Prairie Idealized & Chicago's Black Metropolis: Understanding History Through a Historic PlaceTeaching with Historic Places uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. [Chicago's Columbus Park & Chicago’s Black Metropolis] Environment and ConservationFriends of the Chicago River: Chicago River Schools NetworkFriends of the Chicago River’s dynamic education program, the Chicago River Schools Network, provides K-12 teachers with the training and personalized assistance they need to take their students on an adventure into the turbulent history, evolving ecology and improving health of the Chicago River. [Chicago River Schools Network] Openlands: Green Teacher NetworkThe Green Teacher Network (GTN) is Chicago’s educational resource network for schools with gardens or “growing windowsills” that use gardening activities to support curricular goals. GTN was created to sustain existing gardens and for teachers who found the school garden an exciting vehicle for action-based teaching of math, science, reading and social studies. [Green Teacher Network] |
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