Dragonfly Pond Project

This past week we completed our "Dragonfly Pond", (through Project Wild) community project in which each member of the class constructed a house and a business to contribute to the town. I think we settled on the name,"Circletown", in relation to our Facebook group of IUSB elementary education majors. The project was very dynamic in that it inspired all of us to ask some pedagogical questions about how we could teach civics using this community model in our classroom. We also went deeper into the heart of a successful community on many different levels. This was an intriguing process looking at the structures we inadvertently depend on to create the order and structure in our lives. Altogether this is a great way to look at the aspects of infrastructure and government, and hopefully devise some creative and engaging ways to educate our students.