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Social Studies |
Language Arts |
Science |
Math |
| Forces that Shape Cities and Neighborhoods |
What Makes A Community?
Investigating Barriers and Bonds in the local community/ greater L. A. |
"Social Capital" and What Shapes It.
Interviews
Inventory of public places and diversity of activity |
What's Here in the Neighborhood?
Urban Safari: Elementary
Secondary
Shaping the City: Natural and Human Factors that Influenced Los Angeles
Earthquakes and Structures |
What's Here in the Neighborhood?- Data Calculations and Graphing |
| Mapping |
Neighborhood Landmark mapping Activity
Greater L.A. Mapping activity - Freeways, Major Streets, and
Landmarks |
A Sense of Place
Read selections that capture urban experiences
Write your own walking experience of the neighborhood |
Urban Open Green Space- Mapping Activity
Getting Across Town: Corridors and Barriers
Road Kill Studies |
Where People Live and Where They Work
Standing on the Corner
Urban Open Green Space- Mapping Activity |
| Demographics |
Historical Perspectives:
LA through the Decades: Demographics, income, crime, population, age |
Signs and Symbols
Research the changes in the neighborhood's demographics
Create a visual to convey a past time. |
Population Studies -Urban Animals & Humans
Overcrowding and Implications for Humans |
US Population by Decades
Urbanization Data
Who Populates Cities? |
| Livability |
Making LA Liveable -
Famous Personalities and their impact
Community Action Projects |
Intention or Happenstance
Why does it look this way?
Research ideas of the city.
Compare ideals or ideas to your neighborhood Essay |
Urban Open Green Space- Mapping Activity
Highway to No Where-Land Use Simulation and Research Project
Environmental Action Projects |
Poverty and Crime in Cities
Don't Trash It: Measuring the Trash |
Science In The City is a part of LAEP
Learning Exchange.