Green Community Teaching Kit
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(Grades 5-8)
The Green Community Teaching Kit provides a comprehensive approach to studying green communities. It allows students and educators to create a town from the ground up complete with model buildings, land use categorization, and planning strategies. Like our other educational programs this all happens while utilizing the design process to develop skills such as communication, cooperative learning, decision making, analysis, creativity and innovation.
The kit introduces students to Grayville, a fictional community synthesized from a combination of real-life case studies. While studying the problems of Grayville, students are introduced to the basics of urban planning. Students then explore the principles of sustainable communities through the investigation of real life towns and cities, an examination of green buildings and sustainable technologies. They will use these concepts to re-plan Grayville into a livable, green community...the new Greenville.
The curriculum and materials in the kit are designed to be reused each school year. The Kit includes a 5' x 5' fabric map, lesson plans, and visual aids, all of which are made out of durable, environmentally-friendly materials. The kit is designed for students in grades 5-8.
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Kit Contents
Curriculum Plan
- Aligned with National Standards of Learning
- Seven core lesson plans
- Core lessons require approximately five hours of classroom time
- Orientation section to help you organize lessons to fit your teaching schedule
- Supplemental resource section including vocabulary, books, web sites, videos, and organizations
Teaching Tools
- 5 x 5 foot Fabric Map: Made from recycled fibers. Help turn Grayville into Greenville.
- Color-coded Land Use Cards: Plan a new community from the ground up.
- Building Boxes: Create your own buildings; combine for larger structures.
- Colorful Posters: Featuring our "5 Big Ideas of Green Building" and "5 Big Ideas of Green Communities".
- Full Color Postcards: Learn about existing model green communities.
Sponsors
The Green Community Teaching Kit is sponsored by the Government of the District of Columbia, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development.
