I just joined. I work as a regional land use planner in western mass. I am looking for resources on teaching young children about planning. Does anyone know of any really good ones?
Thansk
-Catherine
I just joined. I work as a regional land use planner in western mass. I am looking for resources on teaching young children about planning. Does anyone know of any really good ones?
Thansk
-Catherine
Welcome! Someone asked something similar recently in this thread. I hope that helps.
welcome
"Growth is inevitable and desirable, but destruction of community character is not. The question is not whether your part of the world is going to change. The question is how." -- Edward T. McMahon, The Conservation Fund
Welcome. The link Michele Zone provided contains additional links (also gathered by MZ) to threads which have discussed this issue. Hope you find what you're looking for!
Howdy From Southeast Florida
I was just up in your neck of the woods this summer and loved it......
I like some of the stuff found in the national geogrpahy standards manual and NCGE (National Council for Geographic Education) teaching resources. Good Luck.
On the ground, protecting the Cyburbia Shove since 2004.
Welcome from Chicagoland!!!
I'm sorry. Is my bias showing?
Welcome from the chilly Florida panhandle.
A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place — like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.
Greetings from the Hoosier State.
How quickly their blood thinsOriginally posted by RichmondJake
Welcome from the chilly Florida panhandle.
I have seen
old ships sailing
like swans asleep
Ditto; but west of and downriver from Gedunker.
Oddball
Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves?
Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
From Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Are you sure you're not hurt ?
No. Just some parts wake up faster than others.
Broke parts take a little longer, though.
From Electric Horseman (1979)
Welcome Catherine! Glad you joined us, now stick around and have fun; There's more to planning than just work
Welcome from the East.
welcome
Universe is not wide enough to be planned.
Welcome
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin
Remember this motto to live by: "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO- HOO what a ride!'"
Welcome from just out side of Kalamazoo.
When compassion exceeds logic for too long, chaos will ensue. - Unknown
Welcome from even farther east, on Cape Cod. It appears that our Masachusetts contingent is growing!
Planning is much like acting, as my old theater professor used to say, "If you sin, sin boldly, only you know if you are ad libbing." I follow this adage almost daily.
Welcome from a Central FL Cyburbian and former student of a western Mass college!
Howdy from River City along the St. Johns.
