Green Community Teaching Kit

Coming Soon! Green Community Teaching Kit (Grades 5-8)

The Green Community Teaching Kit provides a comprehensive approach to studying green communities. It allows students and educators to create a town from the ground up complete with model buildings, land use categorization, and planning strategies. Like our other educational programs this all happens while utilizing the design process to develop skills such as communication, cooperative learning, decision making, analysis, creativity and innovation.

The Kit introduces students to Grayville, a fictional community synthesized from a combination of real-life case studies. While studying the problems of Grayville, students are introduced to the basics of urban planning. Students then explore the principles of sustainable communities through the investigation of real life towns and cities, an examination of green buildings and sustainable technologies. They will use these concepts to re-plan Grayville into a livable, green community, the new Greenville.

The curriculum and materials in the kit are designed to be reused each school year. The Kit includes a 5 ft x 5 ft fabric map, lesson plans, and visual aids, all of which are made out of durable, environmentally friendly materials. The Kit is designed for students in 5-8th grades. The Green Community Teaching Kit is currently in development. To request more information, click here.

Kit Contents

Green Community Teaching Kit Green Community Poster Side One Green Community Kit Poster Side 2

Curriculum Plan

Aligned with National Standards of Learning
Seven core lesson plans
Core lessons require approximately five hours of classroom time
Orientation section will help you organize lesson to fit your teaching schedule
Supplemental resource section including vocabulary, books, web sites, videos, and organizations

Teaching Tools

5 x 5 foot Fabric Map: Made of 100% cotton. Help turn Grayville into Greenville.
Color-coded Land Use Cards: Plan a new community from the ground up. Made from recycled milk containers.
Building Boxes: Create your own buildings; combine for larger structures.
Colorful Double-sided Poster: Featuring our "5 Big Ideas of Green Building" and "5 Big Ideas of Green Communities".
Full Color Postcards: Learn about existing model green communities.

To request more information regarding the Green Community Teaching Kit, click here.

Green Community Teaching Kits are sponsored by the Government of the District of Columbia, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development.