Task 3: A Paper City

Pupils‘ task is to use paper waste materials to create the city (the surrounding of the school).

Equipment: cardboard boxes, small boxes, paper rolls, dispersion glue, adhesive tape, coloured papers, tempera colours, A4 or A3 paper, cardboard.

Procedure:

The teacher selects the area of the city that pupils will create and prints parts of the map from map portals: mapy.cz, maps.google.com.

It is advisable to include the surrounding of the school because it is the best known for pupils. We divide the children into groups according to the way we are accustomed to working. Each group will be assigned a certain number of houses or a street, a sector (according to the built-up area).

We can also bring a printed map of the city or another map where the search for the street is done by searching by the sectors. (A5, C3). We will show them how to search in these maps.

Subsequently, pupils begin to create the assigned block of buildings. The basis for them will be A3 or A4 sheet of sturdy paper or cardboard on which they draw the base, roads, pavements, greenery. They then place their buildings on the designated locations. The buildings stand separately and will only be placed on the base, they will not be glued. Each part will be marked. At the ends of the maps we also designate the cardinal points.

Pupils will create a 2D map at first and create a spatial map of their surroundings with the waste materials. In the photo there are unfinished houses and an indicated landscape. The houses are before completion and the road needs to be adjusted to more lanes to match the scale. This way, the C3 block will follow next.