Building a Neighborhood

We just finished up our nonfiction unit in 2nd grade, and the social studies focus for this unit was Geography. Students learned about different types of communites, maps, and making map keys in this unit. To finish it up, we had a special guest come help us! 

A student's mom works for the Chicago Children's Museum, and she does different projects with students that she brings to schools. She came to our classroom and taught students all about the different parts needed to form a neighborhood, and where things do/do not make sense to be placed. Students then got to use all recycled materials to build their town! 

Not only did this project help wrap up our nonfiction unit, but the students had a blast doing it! I loved that this ended our unit with a hands-on and collaborative project to help students fully understand how communities work. Thanks, Mrs. Eberhardy!