• This detailed mapping activity will get your students involved in observing your community, reflecting, mapping, analyzing, refining, and planning for future action. 
• It is meant to be a multi-day or week-long project and will provide students with a learning path that results in increased community awareness and mapping skills. 

Positives

• This project includes several options for extension and will work with students at various levels.
• This inquiry approach to learning is extremely engaging.

Additional Prerequisites

• A free 60-day trial to arcgis.com is necessary to complete a map on the site.
• Physical materials needed include: markers or crayons, large sheets of white paper, glue or tape, stickers, a community map, and a camera or photos of your community.

Differentiation

• This resource would work equally well in a science or social studies class; a creative idea would to be to work together between science and social studies classrooms to complete this project and the ensuing environmental campaign together.
• Cross-curricular connections could be made in art classes by adding more artistic components to the mapping project and creating art to get the community involved in future campaigns.
• This project would work well as a whole group project for smaller classes or as a large group project for larger class sizes. Students will likely need to work together over several classes in order to complete the mapping activity.

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