Urban+Plan+Rubric+and+Contract

=**Phase 1: Plan and Play**=

Things to do---
 * Familiarize yourself with Google Sketchup 8 (free download on main Urban Plan page). Focus on drawing tools, 3d model warehouse, and terrain building.
 * Create a Wikispace account and your own page in your teacher's room (page)
 * Decide where you want your city to be, how big, the layout, what will be in your city (government buildings, businesses, homes, things to do there...)
 * Decide how your city will function (city government)
 * Look and feel of your city?
 * Money management - you start with $150 million, be sure to deduct $5 million for your roads
 * Road layers and shape (water drainage)
 * Look and feel of your city?
 * Money management - you start with $150 million, be sure to deduct $5 million for your roads
 * Road layers and shape (water drainage)
 * Money management - you start with $150 million, be sure to deduct $5 million for your roads
 * Road layers and shape (water drainage)
 * Road layers and shape (water drainage)

Notes to yourself---

=**Phase 2: Rough Build**=

> (be prepared to explain road structure and layers)
 * Build geography - water, mountains, hills, etc... (what is the geography and terrain like where you are building your city?)
 * Build your roads AFTER you build your terrain but BEFORE anything else. This will force you to plan ahead the layout of your city.
 * Build your roads AFTER you build your terrain but BEFORE anything else. This will force you to plan ahead the layout of your city.
 * Download or build your government buildings, businesses, homes, etc (use the 3d warehouse if you want)
 * Log all questions and problems SOMEWHERE. (scratch paper, sticky note, WIKISPACES preferably, journal...)
 * Log all questions and problems SOMEWHERE. (scratch paper, sticky note, WIKISPACES preferably, journal...)
 * Log all questions and problems SOMEWHERE. (scratch paper, sticky note, WIKISPACES preferably, journal...)

Notes to yourself--- = = =**Phase 3: Final Build**=

While building you should have reflected and written down any questions or issues you came across. This phase will be dedicated to addressing those issues classwide. We will address them as they come up but we need to discuss and address the "fixes" to anything and share.

Notes to yourself

= = =**Phase 4: Public Service Announcement/State of the City Address from You!**=


 * Record yourself explaining your city and your reasoning behind why you built it the way you did. Include road explanation.
 * Create a public service announcement OR a State of the City Address. These will be like a commercial and you may create them in imovie or Windows Movie Maker or Movie Maker Live (available at school on our computers).
 * Upload all of the above to Wikispace in your teachers page OR your page (hopefully you will all have one by then!)
 * Upload all of the above to Wikispace in your teachers page OR your page (hopefully you will all have one by then!)
 * Upload all of the above to Wikispace in your teachers page OR your page (hopefully you will all have one by then!)