Activities and Fireworks for City Planning and Waterways

April 30 – May 4
Workshop Activities
Craft - Cityscape Craft
Key Points – City Building
Collaborative – Scale it up!
Writing - Prepositions
Math/Logic – Road Rally – finding your way on a map
Genius Principle – Random Acts of Kindness
Big Activity - City Masterplanning
Movement - GPS Says Game
Minecraft Activities
Leonardo’s ideas for cities
Collaboratively build the various parts of a planned community
Build Challenge: Add aqueducts to the city
Upcoming Activities
Weekly Teen Hang Outs – Wednesdays in Santa Ana https://www.facebook.com/events/384701815307729/
5/9 Disneyland meetup: Craftsmanship https://www.celebrationeducation.com/copy-of-theme
Fireworks
Read through the fireworks and choose five that you think might interest your child. Allow him or her to select 1-3 of them.
Ride some form of public transportation.
Draw or write about places around town.
Visit a historical site in your city. Discuss the site’s importance with your family.
Draw a map including your house, a school, a park, library, fire station, police station, and a grocery store.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Come up with some new answers to the question.
Write an essay on why you believe that water is important to a city.
Make a map of an ideal city. Come up with some creative names for the city, neighborhood, and streets.
During the black plague in Europe in the mid-14th century, people thought the disease was caused by an earthquake or by the planets. Leonardo said it was due to the crowded and unclean conditions of the city. Hold a court trial. You are the judge. Have people argue the different opinions about what caused the plague.
Interview your city manager about plans for your city’s future.
Visit a master planned community.
Compare the layout of Leonardo’s city plan to your own city’s layout.
Visit the water department.
Count the number of houses on your block.
Play some math games.
Work on your genius project.
Find five different building shapes in your town and draw them.