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Educational Programs

The Box City curriculum is the premier activity used to teach the roles and opportunities each person has in creating their community. Through active listening, cooperation & creativity, participants learn valuable lessons in leadership and design. From the starting point of a city plan, each person can design their school, home, church, government building, community center, airport, & place it in a position that positively impacts the neighborhood. Box City curriculum is copyrighted. 

CUBE does not market or sell boxes. We find that the big box and local grocery stores offer boxes for free, and they come in lots of good sizes for decorating and building a more environmentally sound Box City! If you want to source gabled house-shaped boxes, contact us for sources.

Box City

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Box City in Action

Box City in Action

Typical gabled roof 6x6 boxes for personal decoration

typical 6x6 boxes for personal decoration
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Walk Around the Block

The WAB curriculum guide helps one explore and understand our local environment. Learning to see; scale, texture of the city, building materials, architectural details, signage, landscape, safety and security tools all make up for a fun and inviting learning tool. This can be done in an afternoon or for several outings in different situations. 

Lesson Plans

Lesson Plans bring Cube's proven educational methods into your classroom with these engaging lessons written by successful educators. The lessons and activities developed for this website use a cross-curricular approach to teaching about the built environment, addressing teaching and learning standards and appealing to a variety of learning modalities.

Lesson Plans provide simple and easy-to-use activities that support the Box City and Walk Around the Block programs

Pipe Cleaner People
City People, City Stories
Landmark Calendar
Physics Park
Grid It, Map It 
  • Pipe Cleaner People:  Thinking about scale, learning about the world. All ages

  • City People, City Stories: Who lives in our City? Grades 3-8 

  • Creating a Landmark Calendar: An Enterprise for Your School. Grades 5-8

  • Physics Park: Student-designed park. Grades 6-12

  • Grid It / Map It: Understanding Neighborhoods and Connections. Grades 4-8