8th Grade Overview

Park and Community Center

This project will provide a contextual process for understanding math, science and communication benchmarks or GLES through demonstration projects with the built environment; provide a process which requires team work, problem-solving, analysis, and communication; and finally, excite kids about the construction industry as they explore their potential.

In this project, your class has been given a wonderful chance to help your community: to build a brand new park. To create the park and community center, students will go through all the steps that would really be necessary: find a location for it, determine its size, who will use it and what they will put in it (like restrooms, dog walks, bicycle trails, etc.), go through the legal processes, figure out the costs, draw the blue prints, and finally, build a scale model of their park. Their model consists of recycled materials and must fit into a 11”x17” box whose lid will be your park’s layout. You cannot spend more than $5 to create it. Your class may choose the best ones to go to the annual iBuild contest at Bartle Hall where they will be judged with 100s of others from other schools in the Kansas City area.

And who knows? Maybe your ideas will be so great that your city will want to build a park just like yours.