Starting the year again with our Grade 6 students. I absolutely love this unit, and I love going to the URA city gallery.
This year our students are able to choose between the places they want to design, normally we give them a space and some criteria. This year we are allowing them to think of a sustainable living space, a CBD or technology park.
While we’re out exploring the city, we are looking at how maps are created and used, we look at how Singapore is developing their city and the concepts that drive sustainable development here. We look at existing structures and natural landscapes and how they have changed and we interview community members and check out neighbourhood demographics.
In class we’ve been doing classroom mapping, drawing how we want our classroom developments and coming up with concepts about what the classroom should look like.
All of this is helping us understand that urban areas develop based on what they believe progress is, the needs of the community members and the natural environment around them.
It’s great to be back out with the young explorers, checking things out and getting to know our city better, I really love this unit.
Joe Teft 