Teacher's Resources
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Mapping Boundaries

Published by London Open House (Unit 1C 39-51 Highgate Road, London NW5 1RS)

Mapping Boundaries - A Spatial Approach to Design for Trainee Teachers

Teaching the teachers: a case study from London Open House on a project carrided out with students on the BA course at Goldsmiths College - a project that heavily focused upon process in order to promote intended educational outcomes. Twelve trainee teachers were taken by their tutor and a visiting architect through a staged, locally based project that invited the students to initially wotrk in groups and then to individually define their own project agenda within the framework of specific course requirements.

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Published by the Foundation for Architecture, Philadelphia, USA

Architecture in Education - A resource of Imaginative Ideas and Tested Activities

A work from the Foundation for Architecture in Philadelphia seeking to enable children from kindergarten through to 12 th grade to learn about architecture. Loaded with ideas. [1] [2] ISNB 0-9622908-0-7
Anna Slafer and Kevin Cahill. Published by The National Building Museum

Why Design?
Design activity projects (NOT specifically about architecture, but including it) from the National Building Museum in Washington, aimed at 'junior and senior high-school students', although the content will clearly cross the Atlantic with ease. The first part concerns design awareness and contains activities for exploring the design world around us. The second part is about the process of design. This book is packed with well-considered ideas, questions and practical exercises. It's packed - teachers will love it (if only because the book includes a guide section just for them, helping teachers choose among the many options and implement the exercises and projects). ISBN 1-55652-249-5

 

Jane D'Alelio. Published by the National Trust for Historic Preservation

I Know That Building! Discovering Architecture with Activities and Games

All the puzzles, games, quizzes, models to make and pages to colour here open up the world of architecture that surrounds us. 1,2. American in origin and content bias. £11.50 from Amazon.

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A Basic Guide to Modelmaking
Martha Sutherland

A Basic Guide to Modelmaking

An introduction to the craft for students of architecture or anyone who has the need or design to make the large small. Shows how to consturct both study and presentation models using common materials such as paper, chipboard, illustration board, foamcore, balsa and basswood.

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Arts Council of Great BritainOut of Print?

Looking at Architecture

How to improve the school environment and use the children's ideas with the help of professional architects. This publication helps provide useful activities on the themes of Streetscapes/Townscapes; Building Experiences; Structure; and Fabric and Materials. Based upon the experiences of Downing primary School in Ipswich (tel 01473 683178).

 

Our Street - Learning to See

Royal Fine Art Commission, now CABE, 1999 (London, tel 02078396537)
A book aimed at teachers. Not the best graphics (if not, why not?), but a useful compilation of ideas for projects.

Stephen Webster

Inside My House

For children 6 and upward, described as a book to help children learn about where they live. sections are: my home; who lives here?; the kitchen; the bathroom; the house at night; comings and goings; high days and holidays; house work; eco-homes; looking after the house; history in the house; moving house. Tweet the bird leads the way!