Objectives: Students will be able to:

1. identify and distinguish different types/ styles of roofs, windows, and doors.
2. determine what is decorative and/ or what is functional of a building.
3. show how climate and geography affects the built environment.

Geographic Theme:
Human Environment/ Interaction; Place, and Region.

Geographic Standards: The geographically informed person knows and understands.....
#15 - how physical systems affect the human systems.

Geographic Skills:

• Asking geographic questions: What is Architecture? What are the different types of Architectural Styles for roofs, windows, and doors? How are different roof styles dependent on the climate and geography of an area? What is considered decorative and what is considered functional?
• Acquiring geographic information: Through books, discussion, and research of different vocabulary words.
• Organizing geographic information: Make ABC booklets of vocabulary.
• Analyzing geographic information: Looking at pictures of buildings, determine and name the different architectural terms seen.
• Answering geographic questions: From the discussions, readings, research, etc.

Lesson Can Be Used with a Unit on:
Interior Architecture and Room Plans (mapping); Homes and Houses

Materials Needed:

1. Pictures of different types of homes (Coupeville, Washington pictures) / webpage: http://www.k12.hi.us/~cmark/built/building.html
2. Worksheet of some architectural vocabulary.
3. Different collection of books on the built environment.

Procedure:

1. Read book: Architects Make Zigzags - Looking at Architecture from A to Z by Diane Maddex, illustrated by Roxie Munro.
2. Make a listing of some of the words mentioned and add other words.
3. Look at pictures of houses
   • identify the different types of vocabulary
     Worksheet 1
     Worksheet 2
     Worksheet 3
   • compare and contrast building styles
4. Discuss roof types and what happens in different climates.
5. Determine what is decorative and functional of the homes in the pictures.
6. Spend free time looking at books; use "Fun with Architecture" stamps or draw own houses.

Assessment:

1. Using own drawing or stamped picture of a house....show some functional parts and decorative parts. BE able to explain the house design and the effect of climate on design.
2. Journal writings of learning events.

Extensions:

1. Looking at different types of Native American homes and why that choice was made.
2. Looking at different environments / habitats and determine what kind of home/ building they would design and why.

Appendix:
House pictures on the internet and worksheet with architectural terms.
(http://www.k12.hi.us/~cmark/built/building.html)

References:

1. Architecture in Education: a Resource of Imaginative Ideas and Tested Activities by the Foundation for Architecture, Philadelphia.
2. Clues to American Architecture by Marilyn W. Klein and David Fogle.
3. Fun with Architecture by David Eisen (35 rubber stamps)
4. Round Buildings, Square Buildings, Buildings That Wiggle Like a Fish by Philip M. Isaacson.
5. Eyewitness Books - Buildings by Philip Wilkinson
6. The Random House Book of How Things Were Built by David J. Brown.
7. Discovering Architecture with Activities and Games - I Know That Building! by Jane D'Alelio.
8. Architecture and the Built Environment by Department of Education - State of Hawaii.
9. Webpage URLs
   
   • (http://whyy.org/aie/aie.html) Learning Through Architecture
   • (http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/arts/artarch.htm) - Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Art and Architecture.
   • (http://arc.futurescan.com/) I Want to be an Architect.
   • (http://www.usinternet.com/onlineclass/DOODLE/doodle.html) DoodleOpolis- Adventures in Urban Architecture.
   • (http://www.oldconsulateinn.com/historyn.htm) Brief History of Port Townsend.
   • (http://www.glosibp.co.uk/tt1/areas/chelt/visit/architec/victoria.htm) Cheltham's Victorian Architecture.
   • (http://dcwi.com/~josette/archet.htm) Chautauqua's Victorian Architecture of New York
   • (http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/art/arch1.html) Victorian Doubt and Victorian Architecture.
   • (http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/vn/victorov.html) Victorianism
   • (http://www.nthp.org/) National Trust for Historic Preservation
   • (http://www.mortgagemag.com/wa/lc04264.htm) Coupeville, Washington Edition.

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