Mapping your Block Using the data gathered by each student team, create a composite map of your Block. Review the commonly understood symbols for the Map Legend and use the determined scale for uniformed results. Each team is responsible for recording and labeling each piece of their section and identifying the areas using the agreed upon vocabulary. ( See Reaching a Consensus). Students will see the need for a common scale and a common map legend. Use graphing paper to draw the building, the lot or the entire street.

* This lesson plan was adapted from Walk Around the Block by the Center for Understanding the Built Environment, 1992; pages 42-43.

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