Students will learn about concepts of urban planning. Students will develop presentation skills. Students will develop organizational and lay out space planning. Students will learn about their cities urban planner, Benjamin Franklin. A short lecture on landscape design and urban planner, Benjamin Franklin.
Students get into appropriate groups.
Pass out the explanation of site challenge, and instruct each group that they must include this obstacle in their site presentation boards. Allow ten minutes of group discussion and planning before passing out materials. Pass out the large sheets of brown paper and pencils. Explain to them that this paper is similar to their interior floor plans and that they are really making a kind of map. Have students number their habitat that correspond with the foot print on the brown paper.