House of Straw, Sticks or Bricks

For School Groups

School Program
Costs 12.00 per student
Takes about 1.50 hours
Designed for Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade
Theme: Basic Skills, Design and Invention

Description

Construct a basic shelter. Choose walls and roof. Consider what materials are available where. Build a family. Consider the problems your walls will protect them from: rain, snow, heat, fire, winds, floods, mice, bugs or wolves.

With an introduction of houses around the world from Arthur Dorros' This is My House*, students will then build their own houses with front or side yards, chimney, doorbell, fences, trees, steps, porch, flowers…whatever they can 'see' in their mind's eye as they walk toward their own front door.

Meets Connecticut Science Standards

K.1: Objects have properties that can be observed and used to describe similarities and differences.
K.4: Some objects are natural, while others have been designed and made by people to improve the quality of life.

Meets Common Core Standards

K-PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
K-ESS3: Earth and Human Activity

Meets Next Generation Science Standards

LS4.D: Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats LS4.D: Biodiversity and Humans. There are many different kinds of living things in any area, and they exist in different places on land and in water. (2-LS4-1)