# Smart Future City | Real-World Investigation & Design Challenge | Mixed Ability & HPGE Years 3–8 **Price:** $9.95 AUD **Seller:** TeachBuySell Seller **Year Levels:** year4, year5, year6, year7 **Subjects:** designAndTechnologies, humanitiesAndSocialSciences, science ## Description (seller-submitted) Smart Future City | Real-World Investigation & Design Challenge | Years 3–8 What would a city need to thrive in the future? Put students in the role of future city planners and challenge them to investigate how cities could become more liveable, sustainable, accessible and ready for future challenges. Smart Future City is a real-world research, critical thinking, problem-solving and design investigation that takes students beyond simply imagining a futuristic city. Students explore real-world ideas, gather evidence, make decisions and use what they discover to develop their own vision for a city of the future. There is no single correct answer . Students must make choices, explain their reasoning and consider how different ideas work together. A REAL-WORLD PROBLEM TO SOLVE Cities are changing rapidly. As populations grow and technology develops, communities face increasingly complex questions about how people will live, move, work and connect . Students are challenged to consider: How could we design a city that works well for the people who live there — now and in the future? They become investigators, designers and problem-solvers as they explore possibilities before developing their own solution. INVESTIGATE → ANALYSE → DESIGN → REFLECT The Investigation File provides a clear pathway from research to creative application . Students investigate real-world examples, identify useful ideas, consider evidence and then transfer their discoveries into a completely new context. Rather than being given a model answer to copy, students are encouraged to develop their own ideas and solutions . Every design decision should be supported by evidence from their investigation. MORE THAN A CITY-DESIGN PROJECT This isn't simply an activity where students draw their “dream city.” Students need to think about people, resources, sustainability, technology and future challenges and make decisions about how these elements could work together. They will have opportunities to: Investigat… [truncated] --- View on TeachBuySell: https://teachbuysell.com.au/l/651d1a10-79fc-4ff8-b419-e4fdbbf3ef55 Marketplace: https://teachbuysell.com.au