Cultures

For School Groups

School Program
Costs 13.00 per student
Takes about 1.50 hours
Designed for Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade and 8th grade
Theme: Social Studies, Multicultural Projects

Description

To understand a people, study them where they live. Construct simplified model houses to consider the climates, resources, materials and traditions that define culture. Focus on a region. Focus on a historic area. Focus on a common pursuit like baking bread. Create façades of local architecture.

Meets Connecticut Science Standards

3.2: Organisms can survive and reproduce only in environments that meet their basic needs.
3.4: Earth materials provide resources for all living things, but these resources are limited and should be conserved.

Meets Common Core Standards

3-LS3: Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
3-LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity

Building Understanding
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Building Understanding

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We construct castles and temples, pyramids and pagodas from far off lands and far off centuries. We construct villas from ancient Rome and Egypt, stilt houses from the Rain Forest, elegant painted houses from the African savannah, adobe farm houses from the American southwest, sod houses from the prairie. Building connects the hands and minds of your students to the hands and minds of the world. Building connects your students.

No great architecture is built without the cooperation that builds community.