Download these Resources for Kids about Architecture collected by the Michigan Architecture Foundation to help you to set up a curriculum for your kids or students. You will probably find some good stuff there.
Category: teach it!
Drawing Your Place
We recently found this great book, “A World of Your Own” where the author, Laura Carlin, asked questions like what if your could make your house out of jello or sprinkles. She encourages kids to think beyond real life, outside of the box, up in the clouds. In checking out Carlin, we found this excellent […]
A Terrific Teaching Guide about Architecture for Kids
The folks at the Chicago Architecture Biennial have put together a robust, well-designed and chock-full-of-good stuff teaching guide for teachers, adults or kids. We recommend it for your journey into using architecture as the subject of your inquiry. The guide explains why architecture is a great medium for learning a lot of different subjects, and […]
Teaching Kids about Architecture in Spain
This program has it all – hands-on learning, skill-building, and FUN. Architecture for Kids, or Architectura Par Ninos, is the name of the program, and gives us another case of “darn I wish I lived in Spain” The program is spelled out on the website, where they build structures both big and small, they learn […]
Teach about Architecture to Kids
This week we received a great letter from an art teacher in Arizona who teaches 7th grade students about architecture. Thank you for noting our work and letting us know what you are doing! This teacher works with her students on a 9 week rotation teaching them about architecture. “Wall Posters” The students draw on the walls […]
5 Minute Origami House for Young Children
Click on the image on the left to see this animation and learn how to fold a SQUARE of paper into an origami house. Make it as big as you want depending on the size of the original paper. And decorate it like crazy! A simple gabled house can be a fun activity in a classroom, at […]
Join the Green Dollhouse Challenge
We just heard about the Green Dollhouse Challenge, a competition of the most politically correct kind! In this Challenge, participants range from 1 – 100 years old, pre-schoolers to aged architects (and anyone in between.) Sponsored by the EnergyTeachers.org organization, the competition is meant to encourage creative thinking in the field of energy efficiency, sustainability, […]
Design.Build.Transform.
What a great series of words. Design.Build.Transform. If you design something and build it, you have transformed that space. It could be a lego tower or a real-life skyscraper, a collection of chairs in a room or a new library for your town. You have the power to think about it and make it happen. […]
Architecture Playground for Kids
Besides great jazz music, yummy beignets (donut-like treats) and a great architectural bike tour of the Lower Ninth Ward, there is now a new reason to visit New Orleans, Louisiana (NOLA). At 2828 Thalia Street, you will find “the Imagination Playground – an architect-designed kit of life-sized building blocks as well as a wide array […]
Architecture Camps for Kids in Illinois
Two architecture camps are planned for this summer 2015 for kids grades 4-6 and 7-9 as well as high school kids, grades 9-12. at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale Illinois. Far south in the great state of Illinois, (quite far from Chicago – our hometown,) is a state university where an excellent design camp has […]