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City Creator

By Alma Row

If your students like Sim City, they’ll enjoy City Creator too. Students easily can create a city by first choosing the city style (“snoland,” “medieville”, or “blankton”), and then adding buildings, roads, people, vehicles and more by clicking and dragging them to the background main window. The pieces just click into place. To delete an item, drag it to the dump truck or wagon in the bottom right corner. Should students want to save their cities, they’ll be prompted to create an account with an email. You can use a bogus email account when working with students, but make sure they remember their usernames and passwords.

About the Author Alma Row is the director of data and instructional technology for South Western School District in Hanover, Pennsylvania. She’s a graduate of, and a teacher for, Penn State University. Visit her del.icio.us site for more resources.

Article by Alma Row
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05/15/2009

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