Design Your Own Suburb

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Design Your Own Suburb

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This lesson asks students to think about their own perceptions of cities and suburbs and to consider the features that exist in typical urban and suburban areas. They also learn about sprawl and consider transportation, housing, businesses, and mixed-use neighborhoods when they design a new suburb.

Education Levels:

3, 4, 5

Subject:

Geography, Architecture

Resource Type:

Lesson plan

Fee Status:

Free

Online provider:

National Geographic Society

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Keywords:

Suburbs, Communities, Urban sprawl, City planning, Urban planning

Mediator:

Elementary school teachers

Publisher:

National Geographic Xpeditions

Is Part Of:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/

Language:

English

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

Arts, Geography

Learning Outcomes:

Conforms To

Colorado Model Content Standards for Geography (1995)

Standard 4: Students understand how economic, political, cultural, and social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation, and conflict.

4.4 Students know the processes, patterns, and functions of human settlement.

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