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| ARCHITECTURE
SAFARI
TEACHER PAGE |
| Lesson
Notes: | | Grade
Level: 7th-9th
grade | | Class
Types: | | Art,
Computer Graphics, Multi-media, Art History, Social Studies, Western Civilization,
World Cultures, Religion, or Technology | | Entry
Level Skills: | | Basic
computer skills: Word processing, typing, using windows. | | Supplies
Needed: | *
Computers (enough for one computer to be available for each group of four
or five students)
* Software: PowerPoint
* Hardware:
At least one digital camera that has the capacity to save at least 30 photos. |
| Reference
Material | | Assessment
Rubric | This
is a handout for students to assess their individual and group work and for the
teacher to grade the project. | | Literature
on the Middle Ages: | *
Knights. Andrea Hopkins. Chancellor Press, 1999.
* The Complete
Guide to Calligraphy - Techniques and Materials. Judy Martin. Shooting Star
Press, 1996. |
Alternate
Project Ideas | | *
Study different architecture styles, like Colonial American, Medieval, Egyptian,
Classical Greek, or Baroque, and build birdhouses based on that style of architecture. |
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Have students redesign their school or home in a specific architectural style. |
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Give students materials (like toothpicks, tape, and index cards) and have them
design architecture based on a specific stlye or combined elements of many styles.
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Conduct an architecture field trip where students go into town, to different buildings
in the community or famous landmarks to search for different architecture. |
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Take the class outside to forage for "found objects" in nature and then
have students build a functional structure with the objects. (Encorporate different
architectural innovations like arches, post and lintel, domes, etc.) |
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Compare architecture, writing, and dress from the middle ages and develop artwork
that encorporates all these elements and highlights their similarities. |
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