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Future Leaders in Planning August 2008
The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) has established a Future Leaders in Planning (FLIP), an eight-month program designed to give high school freshmen and sophomores the opportunity to learn about the region while interacting with their peers from other counties as well as regional leaders involved in planning decision making. |
Living Water Smart in British Columbia August 2008
The British Columbia (B.C.) government in Canada has announced plans to begin a new program, “Living Water Smart,” in the 2009-2010 school year. The program is designed to turn students into water stewards by providing them with a basic understanding of stream health and riparian zones. |
Spaces Places: Everyday Landmarks July 2008
“Spaces Places: Everyday Landmarks” is a 12-page workbook targeted at fifth graders that introduces students to the American Institute of Architects'(AIA) 10 Principles of Livable Communities. Upon completion of the workbook, developed by the AIA Minnesota Architecture in the Schools Committee, each student will have designed a school or community landmark. |
Get Smart About Energy With the U.S. Department of Energy's Free Lesson Plans October 2007
The U.S. Department of Energy now offers a virtual classroom for bolstering knowledge about energy. |
New High School Architecture Textbook Is the First of Its Kind in the Country September 2007
The Chicago Architecture Foundation has recently released “The Architecture Handbook: A Student Guide to Understanding Buildings”, a first of its kind college-prep architecture textbook for high school students. CAF Education Specialists Jennifer Masengarb and Krisann Rehbein give an overview of the goals, writing process, and content of this pioneering publication. |
Teaching with Historic Places June 2007
Teaching with Historic Places, an award-winning program from the National Park Service, brings National Register historic sites -- and the stories behind them -- to life with 130 lesson plans on places in every state in the US. |
National and Global Youth Service Day May 2007
National & Global Youth Service Day (N & GYSD) is the largest service event in the world, mobilizing millions of young people from the U.S. and abroad to identify and address the needs of their communities through service. |
Rome: City and Empire - Discovery Channel Lesson Plan May 2007
Through “Rome: City and Empire,” a lesson plan from the Discovery Channel, students in grades 6-8 can make the connection between Roman Empire cities and the planned communities of today. |
Pennsylvania Land Choices: Lessons in Land Use Planning May 2007
Pennsylvania Land Choices is a program that orients teachers of grades 6-12 to land use concepts and practices and gives them a level of confidence in teaching them to their students. |
Learning to Give: A K-12 Philanthropy Project March 2007
Learning to Give, a project spearheaded by the Council on Michigan Foundations, is a monumental effort to bring philanthropy and service learning into the classroom. It is a resource that every teacher, parent, youth worker, religious instructor, and civic organization should be aware of. |
Several Planning-related Lesson Plans February 2007
The Lesson Plans Page has many free lesson plans related to cities, geography, and transportation. |
Cities of Today, Cities of Tomorrow: United Nations Curriculum February 2007
Cities of Today, Cities of Tomorrow is a six-week curriculum from the United Nations CyberSchoolBus that encourages students to think about, and plan, the cities of the future. |
Urban Growth in America: Discovery Channel Lesson Plan February 2007
Used in conjunction with the Discovery Channel's "Urban Growth in America" video, this lesson covers the early history of modern US cities in the 1800s, with a focus on New York City. |
Teaching Fair Housing and Diversity February 2007
Teaching Fair Housing and Diversity aims to teach students the value of diversity; the moral, ethical and historical perspective of fair housing; and help students work cooperatively to achieve a common goal. |
EE-Link Lesson Plans February 2007
If you have been involved in environmental education for a while, chances are you use, or at least have heard of, EE-Link. |
Looks Count! Connections Between the Visual and Built Environment February 2007
“Looks Count!” is an interdisciplinary middle school curriculum unit that incorporates social studies, math, language arts, visual arts, and science into the design of the built environment. |
Safe Routes to Schools: Lesson Plans February 2007
The Marin County (CA) Bicycle Coalition is one of the leading advocates of the Safe Routes to Schools program, which is making it possible and desirable for children to safely walk or bike to school. With MCBC's lesson plans, the program becomes not just a great way to get to school but a part of the school day as well. |
Living Lightly in the City February 2007
“Living Lightly in the City” is an environmental education guidebook designed to inspire an awareness in young students of their immediate community environment. |
Project WET: Water Stewardship February 2007
Project WET publishes water education materials and lesson plans that encourage water resources stewardship in young people. |
Acorn Naturalists: An Extensive Environmental Education Catalogue February 2007
Acorn Naturalists offers a wealth of environmental education publications and training for teachers, naturalists, interpreters, parents, and many others. |
National Geographic Lesson Plans on Cities and Suburbs January 2007
Xpeditions, National Geographic's geography education page, has created lesson plans for grades K-12 on city design, sprawl, and planning. |
Mainstreet Facade Redesign Project January 2007
The Mainstreet Facade Redesign Project is a community architecture learning project for middle and high school students that focuses on the design of the mainstreet blockscape. |
City Building Education: A Nationally Recognized Educational Model January 2007
City Building Education™ is an innovative, nationally-recognized educational model developed over 35 years ago by Cal Poly Ponoma professor Doreen Nelson. It uses the built environment as a focal point and vehicle for learning. |
ViewFinders: Environmental Literacy Curriculum from the Dunn Foundation December 2006
The Dunn Foundation's ViewFinders curriculum includes two exceptional placed-based educational programs. |
Project Learning Tree - Exploring Environmental Issues: Places We Live December 2006
Project Learning Tree, the environmental education program of the American Forest Foundation, has created a new secondary curriculum for high school students. |
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum: Resources for Educators and Youth December 2006
The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (part of the Smithsonian Institution) has an extensive selection of design resources for educators. Some of these resources relate to urban design and planning. |
The Getty Museum: Resources for Educators and Youth December 2006
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has an educator resources website with several city design lesson plans. |
A Focus on Energy Conservation August 2005
The Alliance to Save Energy offers a wide range of educational tools and resources to bring energy efficiency into the classroom. |
The Build San Francisco Institute August 2005
The Build San Francisco Institute offers full credit courses in Architectural Design and Urban Sociology to any interested San Francisco high school junior or senior in the city. |
This Land is Your Land June 2003
“This Land Is Your Land” is a well-designed series of lesson plans for students in 3rd through 5th grades that can easily be adapted to any grade level. The goal is civic literacy in wise land use. |
Discovering Chicago's Amazing Architecture April 2003
Chicago's amazing architecture is the vehicle for the Chicago Architecture Foundation's curriculum, “Schoolyards to Skylines.” |
Community Heritage Planning Project from the Philadelphia City Planning Commission January 2003
The purpose of the project is to teach the students to get to know their community through understanding their built environment and its assets by mapping. |
Smart Growth Educator's Website July 2002
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington has launched the Educator's Resource Guide, a supplemental educational component to UNCW's documentary, "Paving the American Dream: Southern Cities, Shores & Sprawl." |
Lesson Plans on Impact of "Big Box" Stores April 2001
Three lesson plans have been developed in conjunction with the “Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town” documentary. |
Education for a Sustainable Future: A K-12 Sustainability Curriculum July 2000
The Center for a Sustainable Future, a division of The Concord Consortium, and Cobb County (Georgia) Public Schools have developed Education for a Sustainable Future, a K-12 curriculum on sustainability. |
National 4-H Council Curriculum on Transportation and the Environment November 1999
With “Going Places, Making Choices: Transportation and the Environment,” the Council has succeeded in developing another outstanding educational resource. |
Community Mapping: Creating a Sense of Place (In the Spotlight) December 1998
Besides its many possible curriculum links, the mapping of special places and things in students' lives gives validity to personal experiences outside the classroom. |
Welcome to Planet Neighborhood (Class Notes) October 1997
Planet Neighborhood is an outstanding multimedia environmental project that highlights grassroots movements to help all of us live better, cleaner lives. |
Story of Land Use (Class Notes) April 1995
The Soil and Water Conservation Society has developed a set of seven Environmental Adventures cartoon booklets including “The Story of the Land: Its Use and Misuse Through the Centuries.” |
Utah's Project 2000: Kidspeak July 1991
Project 2000 is a nonprofit organization established to inform the citizens of Utah and create a dialogue about the changes in Utah's future by the year 2000 and beyond. |
Learning from Heritage Education January 1991
From all over the country come stories of youngsters who, newly aware of their communities' architectural and cultural heritage, fight to save favorite houses, structures and landscapes. But how much can we count on schools helping kids to become involved---or even aware? |
