City Works. Modules One-Five.

CityWorks is a course offered at the Rindge School of Technical Arts, open to all ninth-grade students in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During the course, students investigate Cambridge's neighborhoods, services, and industries; they make maps, take photographs, draw blueprints, build models, make videotapes, and write oral histories. The focus is on building problem-solving abilities, learning teamwork and communication skills, conducting projects that are useful to the community, and learning about a variety of tools and media. The modules in this package cover these aspects of the CityWorks course: introduction to CityWorks and the skills that will be developed, walk around the block, exploratory projects, and community development. Modules include content outlines, projects, informative handouts, and worksheets. (KC)