Imagine your students designing their dream playground — not on paper, not in their heads, but on a real interactive map of their actual school grounds. That's exactly what Build a Park makes possible.
Build a Park is a free, browser-based web app designed especially for upper elementary students. It combines the intuitive fun of drag-and-drop design with the power of ArcGIS Online mapping technology. Students search for their school or a nearby park, zoom in, and then drag playground equipment icons directly onto the map — slides, swings, monkey bars, seesaws, gaga ball pits, koi ponds, and more. Each piece of equipment gets a short, editable label so students can personalize their designs. When they're done, they can take a screenshot of their finished park or save their design directly to ArcGIS Online as a professional web map.