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George Eastman House: Shapes and Shelters Discovery Kits Unit PlanGeorge Eastman House: Shapes and Shelters Discovery Kits Unit Plan
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George Eastman Museum
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3rd - 8th
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George Eastman House: Shapes and Shelters Discovery Kits

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Find a classroom-ready annotated slideshow and lesson plans designed to introduce students to fundamental architectural concepts and to improve their skills in recognizing the structural components of architecture. Slideshow uses historical photographs to document architectural elements, shapes, and styles, imparting a sense of architecture's long history and its relationship to people and the environment.

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Concepts

architecture, buildings

Additional Tags

building shapes, principles of architecture, structures, finding shapes in art, geometric shape, elements of architecture

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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Activity

George Eastman House: Discovery Room Tips: Think Like a Filmmaker [Pdf]

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Learn about the roles of director, cinematographer, and screenwriter in the filmmaking process. Includes templates for making film-production props--director's bullhorn, cinematographer's storyboards, and a scene clapper--so that you can...
2nd - 7th Visual & Performing Arts
Activity

George Eastman House: How to Make a Camera Obscura [Pdf]

George Eastman Museum
Resource provides history and background information about the camera obscura. There are also easy to follow instructions for you to make your own version of the camera obscura to better understand the history and technology behind...
3rd - 8th Visual & Performing Arts
Lesson Plan

Housing: Types of Shelters

Curated OER
Students experiment with the construction of shelters and the various types of architectural designs.  For this shelters lesson, students draw the building they live in.  Students compare and contrast buildings made today and...
3rd - 8th Visual & Performing Arts
Worksheet

Shape Picture

Curated OER
Get your youngsters using rules! For this challenge, they measure the shapes that make up a house and a tree to practice measuring in centimeters. Then, they write down the equation for each shape. (Example: 4+6+4+6.) Finally, they...
3rd - 4th Math
Lesson Plan

Textured Landscapes with Grant Wood

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Explore the world of textured landscapes through the eyes of the famous artist, Grant Wood. Here is an elementary art activity in which scholars learn about Grant Wood's life, view his work, draw their own textured landscape, and then...
K - 6th Visual & Performing Arts
Instructional Video

Grip and Electric

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Gorgeous cinematography is the result of painstaking, detail-oriented work by many different departments of a film production. An informative video shines a light on the grip and electric departments, the ways they use filters, gels, and...
9 mins 8th - 12th Visual & Performing Arts
CCSS: Adaptable
Lesson Plan

Ocean Exploration: Shapes and Patterns Under the Sea

Curated OER
So many shapes in our vast oceans. Young explorers can discover new shapes in a variety of ways in this lesson. One way is having free exploration with a pattern shape kit handed out by the teacher. Another is by viewing a...
K - 3rd Visual & Performing Arts
Activity

George Eastman House: Create a Phenakistoscope

George Eastman Museum
Phenakistoscope. You may not be able to pronounce it, but with these easy to follow instructions you can make one. Have fun creating one of the earliest cinematography devices and watch your pictures come to life. Includes a printable...
3rd - 8th Visual & Performing Arts
Lesson Plan

My Treehouse

National Gallery of Canada
If you could build your own treehouse, what would it look like? Using a piece of contemporary art as inspiration, learners draw their own treehouses and add geometric and organic shapes. The lesson touches on Visual Thinking Strategies...
K - 3rd Visual & Performing Arts
Worksheet

Shapes

Curated OER
In this Chinese shapes worksheet, students color in 16 different shapes, trace the 8 dotted lined shapes and pronounce each shape in Chinese.
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