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Developing Minds: Learning How to Rebuild a Town

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. More to this story.

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Release Date: 2/1/2006
Running Time: 9 min.

Video Credits

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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Dara Taylor
Posted on 4/07/2009 12:32pm

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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.

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Megan Marshall
Posted on 6/08/2009 11:13am

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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Lisa Liverman
Posted on 6/08/2009 11:13am

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.

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Natascha Cox
Posted on 6/12/2009 1:22pm

Interdisciplinary

I could see a version of this being used for a cross curricular project. Student engagement is again high!

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