City People, City Stories
Overview
Understanding architecture and cities
must begin with an understanding of the people of that city. This set of
activities enables children to think about the city from that perspective:
the children create scale Box City citizens; then, following their natural
inclination to invent stories about the people and buildings they create,
they develop, write, and share those stories.
As a precursor to
these activities the teacher introduces illustrations and excerpts from
children's literature wherein authors and illustrators describe places in
the built environment.
