DOGO Media
Dogo News: Peek Inside the World's First Carbon Neutral City
A new kind of city is being built in the Arab desert. Read about the unique engineering that is creating Masdar, a "city of the future" which doesn't use fossil fuels.
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Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Cities and Towns in Texas [Pdf]
An activity guide where learners refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this lesson, they investigate changes in population for different Texas counties, and the...
Vroma Project
Juvenal's Satire 3: Rome, the Savage City
An excellent source for this text, this site has a side-by-side translation into English accompanying the Latin. This site also includes hyperlinks to various subjects in the English to help understand the writing. An invaluable...
Other
City College of San Francisco: The Diego Rivera Mural Project
This resource features the Pan American Unity Mural located at the City College of San Francisco. Also known as Marriage of the Artistic Expression of the North and the South, the mural was created to promote diversity and show human...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Tale of Text Messages: A Character Study of a Tale of Two Cities
Students engage in a character study of the numerous figures created by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities. They compare and contrast several forms of communication: email, text message, and telephone; complete a character study...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Learning Sustainability With Sim City
Helps educators develop SimCity-based lesson plans that will encourage students to think critically about the challenges facing modern cities. SimCity is a city-building simulation computer game where players become the mayor and design...
Other
City of Temiskaming Shores: The City of Temiskaming Shores
The City of Temiskaming Shores is located in Northeastern Ontario and was created through the amalgamation of the towns of New Liskeard, Halliebury, and Dymond in 2004. Information is provided on the city's history, economy and tourism.
PBS
Pbs: The City of Thulamela
Good information from PBS on Thulamela, another archaeological site in South Africa. Thulamela prospered between 1350 and 1650 A.D. and was skilled in mining and creating tools.
Able Media
Ablemedia: Unearthing the Lost City of a Burbe Suburbe
This site is provided for by Ablemedia. Unique simulation activity where students "Discover," an ancient city and complete tasks to compile a history of the city and finally create a 3-D model of the city. Could be adapted for many...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Protecting Our City With Levees
Students design and build their own model levees. Acting as engineers for their city, teams create sturdy barriers to prevent water from flooding a city in the event of a hurricane.
EL Education
El Education: Flower City Atlas
3rd grade students in Rochester, New York, created this historical/environmental guide to the City of Rochester as part of a learning expedition on local history. The guiding questions were: How did Rochester become the Flower City? How...
EL Education
El Education: Flower City Almanac
3rd grade students at the Genesee Community Charter School created this booklet as part of a three-month Learning Expedition on how and why Rochester became to be known as the Flower City. The product was modeled after a farmer's almanac...
EL Education
El Education: Journals of Trip to New York City
After a trip to New York City, students create reflective journals including text, photographs, and illustrations to share their thoughts and experiences, during their trip.
Other
City of Edmonton: Fort Edmonton Park
Visit Canada's largest living history museum at Fort Edmonton Park. Time has stopped and is waiting for you to experience life as it was through four historical periods. Though this is a commerical site, the photos and information...
Other
Planning.org: Kids and Community
Use this site to explore how you create communities, how you live in them, and how you change them. This site also has information on the career of city planning, and activities on city planning.
National Wildlife Federation
National Wildlife Federation: Create a Certified Wildlife Habitat
This comprehensive resource provides information on how to set up a back yard garden. Providing food, water, cover, a place to raise young, and sustaining your garden are the topics discussed.
9/11 Memorial & Museum
National September 11 Memorial & Museum: Creating a Museum Exhibition [Pdf]
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum has partnered with the New York City Department of Education and the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education to develop a robust set of 9/11 lessons for K-12 classrooms. Each...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: My City, My Perspective
A lesson in which students create a drawing of a local architectural structure using grid and perspective lines.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Creating an Edible Map
This imaginative lesson uses food products to demonstrate the physical characteristics of maps.
Other
Amon Carter Museum: Texas Bird's Eye Views
A fascinating collection of fifty-nine bird's-eye view maps of Texas in the 1800s, covering forty-four cities in all. These maps were created by artists and provide historical records that would otherwise not exist. Each map is...
Curated OER
Unesco: Mexico: Pre Hispanic City of Teotihuacan
The holy city of Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') is situated some 50 km north-east of Mexico City. Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., it is characterized by the vast size of its monuments - in particular,...
Curated OER
Unesco: Israel: White City of Tel Aviv the Modern Movement
Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 and developed as a metropolitan city under the British Mandate in Palestine. The White City was constructed from the early 1930s until the 1950s, based on the urban plan by Sir Patrick Geddes, reflecting...
Montgomery CountyPublic Schools
Mcps: City Weather Project and Technology Routines
A Grade 8 Science teacher describes how she set up her classroom routines to facilitate group interaction and efficient use of technology tools during a UDL unit. As part of their unit on meteorology, students created a presentation on...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Sentence Writing Practice: Plurals
Students type a sentence for each of twenty different plural words. When finished, they can create a PDF of their sentences and print them out to share.