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A Tool For Educators.
Educate here. By making architecture and design relevant to students' lives through the integration of architecture into core subject areas, the lessons will encourage real life connections, community involvement and impact the role they play in making community-wide decisions.
Each lesson has a theme which incorporates two different subject areas and meets the Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements (EALRS) for those areas. All lessons are easily adaptable for after-school and other enrichment programs.
• Introduction (pdf)
• Lesson Format (pdf)
• EALRS Chart (pdf)
Unit 1 - Nature & Design: How Environment Influences our Buildings
Subjects: Science/Social Studies
2nd Grade and up
Through scientific investigation students will learn how climate informs building design; from the shed roof used in the Pacific Northwest
to the pueblo dwellings of the Southwest.
• Lesson (pdf)
• Images for lesson (pdf)
Unit 2 - Planning Communities: Places and Spaces
Subjects: Math/Social Studies
3rd Grade and up
Students conduct a survey with their classmates and family to develop their own planned communities.
In the process they learn to interpret geographic data, evaluate the influence of ideas and technological developments on people,
the culture and the environment and how to graphically communicate these ideas.
• Lesson (pdf)
• Images for lesson (pdf)
Unit 3 - Our Heritage: Creating Community through Historic Preservation
Subjects: Social Studies/Writing/Communications
4th Grade and up
Students learn the importance of historic buildings by working on a grant for a historic building in their community.
Using writing and discussion they learn how these resources tell the story of the past and connect that community in the present.
• Lesson (pdf)
• Images for lesson (pdf)
Unit 4 - People & Design: Building for People
Subjects: Math/Science/Health
Kindergarten and up
Through measuring, observation and other sensory experiences students will look at the parts of a building and how they affect one's
experience in that building; good or bad.
• Lesson (pdf)
• Images for lesson (pdf)
Unit 5: Shapes, Forms and Planes of Space
Subjects: Math/Visual Arts
2nd Grade and up
Through drawings and modeling in clay and paper, students will learn to transform a two-dimensional drawing into a three-dimensional
form giving them a better understanding of the spaces and places around them.
• Lesson (pdf)
• Images for lesson (pdf)
Hardcopies of lesson plans with DC of all images are available at cost, $10.
To order and for more information, contact Dan Mahle at Dan@seattlearchitecture.org or 206-667-9184.
Special Thanks
Places + Spaces: A Tool for Educators was made possible in part by funding from 4Culture and King County Lodging Tax, and the Accent on Architecture Grants Program, supported by grants from the American Architectural Foundation, CNA Insurance Companies and Victor O. Schinnerer & Company, Inc.
Many people contributed to the development of Places + Spaces. SAF extends special gratitude to Kathleen P. Allen, Rollie Antiput, Kate Buckner Hobbs, Alan Dodson, Sarah Dublin, Dan Fernandez, Bill Gaylord, Joseph Giordano, Miller|Hull Partnership, Susan Millinich, Robert Papsdorf, Carolyn and Robert Purser, Sian Roberts, Margot Rosenberg, Michelle Rosenberger, Anne Seaton, Erin Silva, Pamela Trevithick, and Meghan Toner. Special thanks to the following educators for their invaluable expertise, contributions and support: Sue Backenstose , Christine Bodner, Dana Divens, Grace Dublin, Jen Haddad, Patrick Howard, Joel Isaksen, Lucretia Jensen, Kathleen Marshall, Wyn Pottinger -Levy, Barbara Renfrow-Baker, Carlyn Roedell, and Rob Rose-Leigh.
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