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Box City
How is Box City being used by classroom teachers?
How much does it cost to use Box City?
If I already have Box City, can I order the Classroom Pack without it?
What ages are the best for Box City?
Tips on making Box City Trees
Heritage Education
We are going to the legislature with a proposal to make heritage education a requirement for all students. What materials do you have that will help me?
Box City
How is Box City being used in your classroom?
Tom Charkut, Planner, Lakewood, Colorado
Box City can be used for so many things. Our planning director’s wife is using it to teach English as a second language.
Karen Weibel, Citizens for Responsible Growth
These excellent materials are great for planning efforts. Growth is our biggest issue. We can’t wait to use Box City in Pennsylvania.
Sue Minor, Third grade teacherWe use Box City to teach cooperation.
Liesa Schroeder, Art Teacher
In our building, we use Box City with 2nd Grade to teach the required social studies objectives that focus on community and neighborhood.
Corey A. Teague, Chairman, Youth Education Committee, NCAPA
We are going to do a 6-week Box City program in Hickory, North Carolina in October/November of this year with three 3rd grade classes.
How much does it cost to use Box City?
Deb Schneider, CUBE Administrative Assistant
If you are using the CUBE curriculum and boxes for a classroom of thirty students, the cost is around $69 plus miscellaneous art materials such as markers, tape, and large paper for the grid. If you are using recycled boxes, your only cost would be the curriculum and art materials.
If I already have the Box City curriculum, can I order the Classroom Pack without it?
CUBE Staff
Yes. Just specify on your order. We will let you know the current discount which is around $12.
What are the best ages for Box City?
CUBE Staff
It has been reported to us that Box City has been used with preschoolers and with adults. All of the CUBE materials are written to promote creative thinking and can be bumped up or down by the individual facilitator.
Tips on making Box City Trees
CUBE Staff
An investigation of my Box City files found a practically non-destructible
one that is easy to make and costs virtually nothing. Supplies include: a
paper lunch bag, scissors, and if you want to have summer trees: green
paint. The bottom of the sack will be the base for your tree. The top will be the
branches and the "leaves." Cut down about a third of the way into the sack
from the top, making a longer cut to delineate a major brand and shorter
cuts to make the smaller branches and leaves. Keep the bottom of the sack
flat and begin to twist a trunk Twist the sack up to the bottom of the
cuts, and then twist individually to make the two major branches and the
multiple smaller branches. Kind of rumple the ends of the sack to look like
leaves. The painting can be done prior to any work on the sack and allowed
to dry before beginning the assembly. Splash paint unevenly, and purpose in
multiple shades of green, to give the appearance of leaves. Let some remain
brown to add interest to the landscape. Even when these fall over, they are
not broken and can be easily righted. A smaller version could be a bush.
Hope this helps.
We are going to the legislature with a proposal to make heritage education a requirement for all students. What materials do you have that will help me?
CUBE Staff
CUBE's Technical Bulletin, Evaluation of Built Environment Education in the Curriculum identifies methods for integration, teaching strategies and alternative assessment for built environment and heritage education in schools. It has an over large four page general explanation and listing of assessments as they pertain to Box City and virtually all community-based education processes and how they fit into state and national standards. These were identified by Dr. Kathryn Loncar, our curriculum advisor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.
As you know, assessment is individual for each state, district and even school. All educators who use heritage education or community-based education materials will pull out relevant standards for their particular classroom and site.
