This invaluable handbook and accompanying CD provide teachers of key stage 2 with an in-depth project for awakening students curiosity about the built environment through detailed detective work in a street near their school.
Our street: learning to see publication cover image © CABE
Factual information aimed at the teacher succeeds step by step suggestions to help students embark on their investigation and hone their critical thinking skills. Image banks, both in the book and on the CD, provide a varied selection of examples of the many elements that combine to make a street.
Over a term, students could move from looking critically at the facades of buildings and analysing patterns of brickwork, window and door design to finding out how the street has changed over time, making judgements about the environment and finally, considering how improvements could be made.
Key stage: 2
Key subjects: geography, English, design & technology, citizenship, art & design
Built environment education: streets, local environment, community, public space
