To know and analyse the environment.

Knowledge of social and cultural environment.

Plaça de la Font in Tarragona.

8-9 years old pupils.

School year.

Activity:

Work « in situ ».

Reading and interpretation of urban landscape of the square.

• Active description of its shape and measure.
• Knowledge of urban furniture, quantitative analyse.
• Shops in the square, divided into branches or sectors.
• To understand all the functions of a square, depending on the people living there.
• To understand and appreciate people’s behaviour on the square.
• To discover simple polygonal shapes on the façades.
• To discover public services (water, gas, etc.) in the square.
• To build a scale model of the square to portray their observations.

Worksheets, measure tapes.

Half a day.

On foot.

This activity could be adapted to any square of a city. It has been designed to be autonomous.