Activity 2:
How are neighborhoods engineered?
Flip Through the Flip Book
Using the information in the STEM Career Flip Book, find out what skills
you need to work as a surveyor. How does this job connect with STEM fields?
Open the Flip Book.
STEM Spotlight!
Look over your responses on the Engineering in My Community chart from the last activity. After you discuss,
brainstorm other ways that neighborhoods are engineered.
What Can You Design?
The Building Blocks program is all about your ideas, but before you can start designing you need information.
Use the Google Maps app and get familiarized with your neighborhood. Find your school, home, and local club site.
Use the satellite view to see an aerial image, or access the Google Earth app for a street view.
Challenge Time: Map It
You may know your neighborhood like the back of your hand, but this activity will give you an urban
planner's-eye view of your community.
Do the Challenge: Use the map printout of the neighborhood where your Boys & Girls
Club is located to draw the map one grid at a time. As you work, don't forget to draw everything to scale.
This will ensure that each grid aligns with the other sections of the map.
When done, tape together each map grid to make a completed neighborhood map. Do the streets match up? Did you
and your teammate use the same scale?
