Archkidecture
-- architecture for kids. Wacky stories, cool projects,
amazing structures.
Architectural Bingo
-- architectural bingo card to play outdoors in your
neighborhood or by looking at buildings on-line.
Carmine's Introduction to Architecture
-- fun, hands-on activities for kids of all ages.
Kids and Community
-- site for kids developed by America's city planners to help
kids explore how you create communities, how you live in them,
and how you change them.
Paper Building Models
-- famous buildings from the U.S. and all over the world that
you can build.
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Build Your Own Old City Hall --
Tacoma
Campbell House
-- Spokane.
School tours of the historic Campbell House & related curriculum by the
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture.
HistoryLink Study Aids
-- compilation of tools and links with special emphasis on K-12
Washington state history curricula.
Issaquah Historical Society
school tours of National Register-listed Issaquah Depot,
Gilman Town Hall Museum, history kits, and Family Activity Guide
including kid-friendly walking tour.
Seattle Architecture Foundation Youth Programs --
Seattle
Teaching with Historic Places
lesson plans featuring Washington landmarks
travelthepast.com
-- lots of historic places in Washington to visit. Search
by location, theme, or time period.
Washington State
Historical Society's
History Boxes.
Washington State Capitol Campus Trivia
Contest -- Test your knowledge of this state
landmark.
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Model lesson
plans, hands-on activities, resource materials, glossaries, and
lots of ideas for incorporating architecture and historic
preservation education programs in your classroom or school.
Architecture+Design Education Network --
a program of the American Architectural Foundation [AAF] and the
Chicago Architecture Foundation [CAF] committed to promoting
innovative architecture and design education for teachers and
students in grades K -12.
Architecture in Education (AIE)
-- program of the AIA Philadelphia Chapter and recognized
internationally as a model for built environment education for
K-12 students.
"Challenges and Opportunities in
Heritage Education" -- 56 page National Trust for Historic
Preservation Forum Journal, Volume19/Number 1. Fall
2004.
Ordering
information -- see
back issues of Forum Journal.
CUBE:
Center for Understanding the Building Environment
-- brings together educators with community partners to enable
children to learn the value of the built environment,
problem-solving and social skills, and take responsible action.
"History
Firsthand" -- ways
to provide elementary children with experience with enable them
to being understanding primary resources (actual records --
letters, photographs, artifacts & buildings) from "The Learning
Page" of The Library of Congress
HistoryMatters
-- resources for high school and college historty teachers.
Math in Architecture
-- from PBS's TeacherSource -- teaches Grades 5-8 the math
involved in making a building foundation.
Teaching with Historic Places
-- Uses sites listed on the National
Register of Historic Places through a variety of products and
activities that help teachers bring historic places into the
classroom.
(THEN) The Heritage Education Network
-- website for ideas, lesson plans, activities, sources of
information, and links for heritage education.
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Architectural Styles Guide
A Digital Archive of American Architecture
The Great Buildings Collection
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