
ERIC Number: EJ551309
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1997
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Our Town's Planning Commission Meeting.
Vort, Jeanine VanDe
Journal of Geography, v96 n4 p183-90 Jul-Aug 1997
Discusses the development and implementation of a simulation game for a sixth-grade class that used the structure of Thornton Wilder's play, "Our Town," to examine the geographical issues involved in community planning. The land development issue discussed was based on a real-life local concern. (MJP)
Descriptors: Built Environment, Citizen Participation, Community Development, Community Planning, Economic Development, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Geography, Geography Instruction, Grade 6, Land Use, Learning Activities, Planning Commissions, Role Playing, Simulation, Social Studies, Urban Planning
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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