Creating a Sustainable City
by MARIE LOMBARDI
Teams are tasked with creating and designing a greener/cleaner city that has a minimum of 20 green/clean sustainable features.
Students will be designing a sustainable city in teams. In order to engineer this, the design process should be utilized with careful research of sustainability practices as well as the design of the city.
Lesson Grade Level
6th GradeLesson Plan Link/URL
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iJLD4QgSS3VrP5BKaEQsWZbO9Q6jp_9_/edit?u…Subject Area
Science Life Science L2: Organisms & Energy Engineering S1: Engineering & Global Society S2: Apply the Engineering Design Process S5: Apply Technology to Engineering S6: Apply Communications to Engineering English Language Arts (ELA) Reading (Informational Text) Writing Speaking & ListeningRelated Content
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