This curriculum unit is designed especially for Vocational Construction students, grades 9 through 12. The estimated time for completing the entire unit, including model building is six weeks. Each unit is 90 minutes per class period. A principal goal from this unit is getting students to know more about their city. This teacher believes that a large percent of both high school and college graduates are lacking a comprehensive working knowledge of finding their way around the city in which they live and school. At one time or another, each of us has had to ask for directions and can attest to the challenges we encountered. Construction aside, this course is designed to compensate for that lack of familiarity with one’s own city. All students taking this course will be able to identify and intelligently discuss not only the highlights (buildings, etc.) of the city but also its history and how to get to and from each selected highlight, or point of interest. This will be accomplished through classroom discussions, special speakers, tours and visits to Houston’s city highlights including the downtown skyscrapers, the old Rice Hotel, Enron Field, and the Medical Center hospitals. Each student will construct a model of one of the Houston highlights and be able to discuss how he/she built it.