There are different ways to get each of the class letters composed. That class letter was a requirement for me for this project. I formed four collaborative cooperative teams of four people each. Their job was to collect those summaries from their classmates and compose the class letter from them. It took another hour.
Time involved for each of the four separate urban walks is approximately four to six hours.
We followed the same format, walking past the same houses for our second urban walk. This one was focused on Transportation and the data collection slip had such questions as houses with carports, houses without carports, houses with recreational vehicles parked on premises, houses without, traffic signs visible, what type, etc. The students went through the entire procedure all over again, making new graohs, writing new summaries, and composing a new class leter to be mailed to the other participating schools on our mini-net. In the third urban walk the children again walked past the same houses armed with fifteen xeroxed data collection sheets and this time using their geographer's observation skills to O'SAE the yards belonging to those homes. WE gathered up name-tagged kids, aides, clipboards and embarked walking by the now quite familiar neighborhood homes.