- Students will gain knowledge of different architectural styles from around the world.
- Students will learn to work in teams while comparing/contrasting design elements.
- Students will analyze architectural blueprints from Paul Revere Williams
- Students will design and sketch their own blueprints using real-world mathematical problems.
- Students will analyze how art changes over time and create a fictional business.
- Students will discover new architectural terms and analyze what buildings are ducks vs sheds.
- Students will write arguments defending their position on the architectural topic
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- Inspired by Paul Revere Williams' architectural designs, create blueprints and sketch a dream home of the future.
- Classify iconic Las Vegas buildings as either "duck" or "shed" architecture and defend your opinion in writing.
- Invent a fictional business and design a Googie-inspired sign for it. Consider target audience, pricing, color schemes, font styles, etc.
- Discover architectural styles from around the world and how they have been brought to Las Vegas as "repli-tecture". Work in teams to construct a paper building model in one of these styles.
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- VA:Cr1.6.1 Combine concepts collaboratively to generate innovative ideas for creating art.
- VA:Cr2.6.3 - Design or redesign objects, places, or systems that meet the identified needs of diverse users.
- VA:Cn11.6.1 - Analyze how art reflects changing times, traditions, resources, and cultural uses.
- VA:Cn11.7.1 - Analyze how response to art is influenced by understanding the time and place in which it was created, the available resources, and cultural uses.
- VA:Cr1.8.2 - Collaboratively shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present day life using a contemporary practice of art and design.
- ELA.W.(6-8).1 - Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
- ELA.SL.(6-8).2 - Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
- 6.NS.B - Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples.
- 6.G.A.1 - Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.
- 7.G.B.6 -Solve real-life and mathematical problems involving angle measure, area, surface area, and volume.
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