Welcome to Our Homeschool Architecture Curriculum: Hands-On Architecture

Getting Started with Hands-On Architecture, Our Homeschool Architecture Curriculum

This homeschool architecture curriculum is a series of three units (Unit 1-Structures; Unit 2-Homes; Unit 3-Zoos). Each Hands-On Architecture unit contains nine homeschool elective lessons that include suggested projects.

Printing the Step-by-Step Photos/Teacher Examples and Student Projects is optional; homeschool students may simply view them on the computer. Parents may want to consider not showing Mrs. G.’s student examples to their children until they try their hand at it first. That way, the homeschool student can explore individual ideas; but parents know their children best!

Overview

• 27 weeks
• Includes printable lessons, assignments, photos of finished projects, and links to additional information
• Grades 3rd-7th

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com; journal for notetaking and research.

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan and lessons file. Start with the Day 1 reading assignment. Follow the instructions each day on the lesson plan and check them off when completed.

Course Sample for Hands-On Architecture, Our Homeschool Architecture Curriculum

Hi Students,

So, we’ve covered points and lines. Now it is time to think about planes. What are planes? Let’s review. A point is a specific place in space (or the intersection of two lines). A line is an extended point that goes forever in opposite directions (or the intersection of two planes). A line segment is what we typically see and use, part of a line stopped by a point at either end.

Did you just ask what a plane is? A plane is an extended line. Now the line that you saw before is stretched to form something like a flat rectangle or a piece of paper. A plane can be very thin or thick depending upon how you are using it. Imagine a flat surface (a plane) going off in all directions cutting through the universe. Pretty amazing, especially when you think about more than one plane going in more than one direction at the same time. We will be using planes cut off by line segments.

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