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- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students first read the book Animal Homes by Barbara Taylor. They discuss different animals' needs for shelter. They draw cards with animal pictures on them and then use simple building materials like rocks and play dough to build a shelter. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students explore the shelters used by the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and Utes of Colorado. They construct models and write descriptions of each of these dwellings. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students create a design for a shelter and model them for the class to view. They are to plan out the entire building process and suggest alternate ways of doing things. They evaluate what they have made. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students investigate the need for shelter. They construct a shelter to protect themselves from rain, and conduct durability and waterproof testing on their shelters. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students simulate that they need to develop a new home on a different planet. They design a shelter that will ensure their survival after researching the characteristics of the other planet. They write an essay about their home design. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students listen to various stories about types of shelters. Then, in groups or independently, they use magazine pictures or self-creations demonstrating past, present, and future types of housing from different cultures. Then, they use a Venn diagram to compare their family's shelter to different types. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students investigate how weather influences shelter choices. They explore the concept of insulation and discuss some traditional Native American shelters. They discuss the shelters used by the Okanogan people during the various seasons. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students listen as the teacher reads a book about Pocahontas and observe the shelters pictured in the book. After discussing wood shelters and living arrangements of the Indians, students decorate a pictured house with kernels of corn. In groups, they discuss how the Indians traded corn with the settlers and assisted them in planting corn. Additional hands-on activities are included. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students write a creative story about different types of shelter and where would this type of shelter be used and why? They decide how much area is needed in order for all the students to fit into a shelter if they were to go camping? How many tents? Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 6th
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Students research and design traditional and contemporary shelters from around the world. They build replicas of structures resembling the chosen cultures and time periods. They then connect with classmates to find similarities and differences in shelters and time periods by sharing their creations with each other. Full Review »
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