Design a City | Project-Based Learning Activity

Create a city with this packet. You and your students can jumpstart a "create a city" project. Tons of templates will help your class through the process of designing the layout of their very own city. Build paper roads, businesses, homes, parks, and more. This resource also includes some additional, optional learning experiences including discussing and completing a worksheet about how to select a mayor for your city , writing instructions for finding your way through a city, following rules about city infrastructure laid out in the challenge cards, and practice writing city ordinances.

Your students are going to expand on this project and that’s the best part! This will jumpstart their creativity and challenge and motivate them to do more! This packet provides a starting place for your class- but let your imagination run wild! This project took over 3 hours for my students and they loved every minute of it! I get the same feedback from every teacher who has bought it- one of the best resources they ever used in their classroom, a memory maker, and so much fun!

How To Use This:

Look through all the options and print plenty for your students. Equip your students with scissors, glue, and coloring tools. It’s easiest to let them design and glue onto a posterboard but you could get more creative and cover a wall or hallway with butcher paper. This kit can just be a fun craft, a way to learn about cities, an intro to map-making, or a project to enhance any number of other lessons!

What You Get

• 1 page layout plan

• 2 pages challenge cards with rules and problems

• 1 page city ordinance template

• 1 page mayor candidate choices to elect

• 1 page template (2 to a page) for Follow Directions form

• 1 page map key and city sign template

• 1 page of compass roses to choose from

• 1/2 page cut-out traffic and city signs

• 3 pages homes and businesses

• 1 page pond and park cut outs

• 1 page tree and bush templates

• 4 pages road pieces with tiny cars

• 1 page with semi trucks, tractors, and railroad pieces

• 1 page railroad pieces

• 3 pages 3D building templates (cut, fold, and glue)

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