2.  Research your neighborhood. Which people settled the neighborhood. How did your neighborhood get its name? How has the neighborhood changed over time? What attracted people to your neighborhood? Who are some famous people who came from your neighborhood?

3. Your teacher will upload the neighborhood photographs onto one web page. Brainstorm within your group ideas for how to present information in written form about the neighborhood. Use the semantic web to help you record your group's ideas. Orally share your ideas with the class. As the teacher shares the pen, plan out ideas for which information should be included in each paragraph of your story about your neighborhood.

4.  Choose three places in the neighborhood as shown on the photographs to write about. See the story planner for ideas. Use the word wall to help you spell. Use the writing checklist to make sure you have written the story in standard setting.

5.  Find a map of your neighborhood. Pinpoint places you wrote about on the map. Use Neighborhood Map Machine. to create and print a map of your neighborhood.

6..  Draw a picture of your neighborhood and place it on a neighborhood quilt. This digital quilt is made up of KidPix drawings that are place side by side.

7.  Share your story, photographs, maps and neighborhood quilt with your class in an oral presentation. Your teacher can compile the materials you present into a packet to be sent to your Mayor so that he can use your information to entice prospective business entrepreneurs, shoppers, workers, and future residents to your neighborhood.