The Open Planning Project

Attention all NYC and metro area teachers! Livable Streets Education (LSE) invites you to participate in our free training sessions to enliven your classroom this spring! LSE develops inquiry-based lessons that use the streets outside your school as a laboratory and helps you connects these ideas to your Core Curriculum.

RSVP here.

What’s Involved?

Teachers will be given a free set of printed materials including a Teacher’s Guide, lesson plans and worksheets for students.  Our units consist of 6-12 core lessons, with suggested extensions and resources.  All of our K-12 projects take an interdisciplinary approach to environmental education, include a civic engagement component, and culminate in a creative project that conveys lessons learned to the larger community.

Our professional development program includes hands-on experience and step-by-step training in March to make it easy to bring these lessons to life in your classroom this spring.  Participants can adapt these lessons to best suit their schedule and learning goals.  An additional training session will be held in April to help extend these ideas to service learning projects.

The Units

Please see our flyer or contact us for additional information about each unit.
•    Elementary:  K/1 The Streets Around Us
•    Elementary:  2/3 Getting Around Town
•    Elementary: 4/5 Green Streets
•    Middle School:  6-8 The Air That I Breathe
•    Middle School: 6-8 Re-design Your Street
•    High School: 9-12 Making a Livable Community

Training Schedule

Trainings will be held on March 9, 10 and 11th, from 5pm-8pm in The Open Planning Project penthouse at 148 Lafayette Street. Free dinner will be included at each training session.

• Tuesday, March 9, 5pm - All Elementary School Units
  
• Wednesday, March 10, 5pm - All Middle School Units
• Thursday, March 11, 5pm - High School Unit