Give your students the chance to dream big, design creatively, and build their own city—all while practicing essential academic skills in a fun and meaningful way!

🌆 Design a City Project | 3rd Grade PBL | Art, Math, Writing, & Creativity

Bring creativity and real-world problem solving into your classroom with this Design a City Project!

Perfect for grades 2–4, this hands-on, art-integrated activity invites students to plan, design, and build their very own dream city. Students will use math, art, and writing skills as they plan their layout, decide on community goals, design a flag and a city name, and create a 3D model, with a rubric included for easy grading! It’s an engaging project-based learning experience that promotes teamwork, spatial reasoning, and critical thinking!

💡 What’s Included:

• Student Planning Pages — prompts and graphic organizers for brainstorming and layout
• Bird’s-Eye View Template — helps students plan their city before building
• City Brochure Template — integrates informative writing with creativity
• Opinion Writing Prompt — integrates opinion writing while explaining why their city is the "Best Place Ever"
• Narrative Writing Prompt — integrates narrative writing while describing "A Day in My City"
• Printable Rubric — clear expectations for creativity, planning, math, effort, and presentation

🧠 Skills Covered:

• Map skills & spatial awareness
• Measurement, scale, and geometry
• Creative problem-solving and design thinking
• Writing and persuasive communication
• Collaboration and teamwork
  

🎨 Materials Needed:

Construction paper, cardboard, scissors, glue, markers, and imagination!

✅ Perfect for:

• Art-integrated STEM or STEAM units
• End-of-unit math or social studies projects
• Project-Based Learning (PBL)
• Early finishers or enrichment groups
• Display-ready classroom projects