Developing Minds: Learning How to Rebuild a TownThe UrbanPlan curriculum is an academically challenging, classroom-based, fifteen-hour study unit. Teams of high school juniors and seniors compete to win the redevelopment contract for a decaying neighborhood in the fictitious city of Yorktown. Read the article.
The UrbanPlan curriculum is an academically challenging, classroom-based, fifteen-hour study unit. Teams of high school juniors and seniors compete to win the redevelopment contract for a decaying neighborhood in the fictitious city of Yorktown. Read the article.
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Release Date: 2/1/2006
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Produced, Written, and Directed by
- Ken Ellis
Field Producer:
- Steve Gatlin
Associate Producer:
- Amy Erin Borovoy
Editor:
- Karen Sutherland
Camera Crew:
- Steve Gatlin
- Brian Cardello
- Caven Keith
- Ken Ellis
- Amy Erin Borovoy
Narrator:
- Kris Welch
Original Music:
- Ed Bogas
- © 2006
- The George Lucas Educational Foundation
- All rights reserved.
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Interdisciplinary
I could see a version of this being used for a cross curricular project. Student engagement is again high!
This seems to be a real hands
This seems to be a real hands on approach to planning. The students seemed very interested. I feel that these students will be getting a large part of the benefit from presenting their ideas at the end.
Incredible to see that this
Incredible to see that this project incorporated so many different subject areas. You had to have scientific method, technology and math skills, creativity, art, research, and an element of language arts and speech in the final presentation. This project required many different skills and levels, which allowed the challenges of the assignment to keep them focused on the ultimate goal. Wow!
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FLVS. Latin II. This was very interesting to see how a project like this could teach these students such important skills, aside from the subject area being taught, and make it real for them in terms that they can understand and apply in other situations later.