Second-Grade Students Become City Planners

As a dynamic culmination of their social studies unit about urban and suburban communities, each second-grade class created its own city or suburb. The students had researched and discussed local and global communities, and learned the nuances between “needs” and “wants” that enable towns and cities to thrive. Each class collaborated to design and construct an original community using boxes and found materials, incorporating elements of city planning, engineering and art to bring their mini-metropolises to life.