City+in+the+Sea

City in the Sea
Across the Curriculum / year-long project that includes English, Social Studies, Math, Science (see calendar for assignment dates)

 
 * //**Help Us, We're Sinking**// - Maps and __Inconvenient Truth__
 * //**Stranded Cruise Ship / Big Burning Questions**// -    Students generate the Big Burning Questions that need answering for a cruise ship stranded at sea. These are the same questions we are dealing with as global citizens sharing planet earth.
 * //**Wants and Don't Wants**// -    Students discuss what a community needs or wants to be a great place to live, work and play?


 * //**On the Grid**// - Students use a coordinate grid to locate their parcel or platform within the City in the Sea//.//


 * **//Instant City//** - Rome wasn’t built in a day, but Instant City was. But, because we built our city in one day, without communicating, thinking or planning, we now have many problems to solve.
 * //**Housing the Homeless / Material World**// -     Students use scale, measurement and volume to determine if we have enough housing for our population.


 * **//Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall//** -    Students use scale, measurement and volume to determine if we have enough housing for our population.


 * //**Census in the Sea**// -    <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Each student creates a list of at least 100 real people to live on their platform. Are you on the list?


 * //**Seek n' Speak**// - <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Students use the Big Burning Questions for Stranded Cruise Ship to create mini research projects aimed at solving the major issues facing the survival and success of The City in the Sea


 * //**The Great Debate**// - Who<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> is going to run this place? After research and discussion, students select a governance model for decision making in the City in the Sea.


 * //**Government**// - <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">How are we going to run this place? The government chosen in the Great Debate will make decisions about how to improve the city, how to reach for the city envisioned by the Wants and Don’t wants from earlier in the year.


 * //**Getting it Right?**// - <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Students rebuild the city in preparation for a parent presentation on Wednesday, June 10th 2009. It’s all over after that . . . except that “The city is never finished.” //Doreen Nelson.//