Everyone loves drawing with colored chalk. This activity combined the fun of chalk artwork with large-scale metric measurement and geometry skills. Small groups of students drew cityscapes made of rectangles on paper. They then transformed their cities using colorful chalk to draw their bustling cities on the sidewalk outside the school entrance.

Amber putting the finishing touches on her groups cityscape

We are very proud of our city as you can see. This was a lot of fun because we did math outside...Jared, Jake, Brandon, Haley

Proud Engineers!

...Chris, Nickolas, Todd, Michael

We had so much fun building our chalk cities outside just after is just snowed!...Stephanie

Hurry and take the picture Mrs. Brown it's hard to squat like this...Travis, Jesse, Amber, Ryan H.

We were just trying to stay warm since it had just snowed before we went outside. But it was fun doing math outside, and we learned a lot about metrics and geometry...Hunter, Trevor, TJ, Nathan M.

Hard at work!

We had loads of fun, especially since the ground was wet...Kelli

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