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Boy Scout Merit Badge: Landscape Architecture
In this boy scout merit badge: landscape architecture worksheet, student research the topic with the websites listed, answer 6 detailed questions about related careers, job description, education and qualifications, then perform...
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Lights, Sounds, Fabrics and Designs: Careers in the World of Design
Young scholars investigate the broad range of jobs that can be found in the world of design. Students explore sound design, language architecture, etc. Young scholars design a resource book and post it on a website for others to share.
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Pop Into My Community
First graders distinguish cityscapes from seascapes and landscapes and explore the features of a community. Then, they create a pop-up paper city showing foreground, middle ground, and background.
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Bermudian Vernacular Architecture
Students, after researching, discussing and analyzing vernacular architecture in detail, answer a question and answer sheet, review an extensive vocabulary of key words, complete an activity sheet on the key words, and critique a...
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Exploring Nebraska Art and Architecture
Students explore the art and architecture of Nebraska. Using the internet, they view artwork by various artists and analyze it by using a form given to them by their teacher. They share their analysis with their classmates and discuss...
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Be a Building Detective!
Students participate in an in-depth study of a historic building in their community. They conduct a visual survey of the building, complete a worksheet, take a rubbing of the building, and research the history of the building.
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Lesson: David Goldblatt: Structures and Normativity, looking at Photography
Art can be a vehicle for social change and cultural expression. Upper graders examine the art of photographer David Goldblatt, as it pertains to apartheid, South Africa, and the AIDS epidemic. Discussion questions and image links...
Skyscraper Museum
Changes in a City Over Time
Investigate the growth and development of New York City with the final lesson in this four-part series on skyscrapers. Learners first explore the concept of urban growth by looking closely at a series of three paintings made of Wall...
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The House on a Waterfall
Students analyze Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house. in this architecture analysis instructional activity, students analyze the pictures of the home and discuss Wright's style. Students research the similarities and differences in...
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A Kids Guide to...
Students look into their community's historical changes. In this community instructional activity, students see what draws people to their community and research important buildings or national historic sites. They look at local...
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Geography and Architecture
Students discuss how terrain and climate affect the design of houses and commercial structures and thus influence the way architects design buildings in this elementary lesson plan.
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My, How the World Has Changed!--Architecture from the past to the future
Learners explore how structural forms adapt to evolving world cultures. In groups, students examine posters from the past and write about the picture. Learners make predictions about what the picture will look like in the future....
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My Dream Home
Students investigate the concept of a dream home and create an architectural drawing of it. They design the home with a projected budget of $500,000. They research different designs with the intent of pulling ideas for their design....
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Creating a Job Community
Students design their own job communities. In this art and career exploration lesson, students are placed into groups to create models of business areas based on job types.
University of Oregon
University of Oregon: History of Landscape Architecture
Photographic history of landscape architecture. Includes many different categories for landscape architecture.
University of Oregon
University of Oregon: History of Landscape Architecture
This page contains dozens of links on information about the history of landscape architecture.
Other
Asla: Landscape Architect Career Discovery
Do you dream of working outdoors? A career in landscape architecture may be a good fit for you! Investigate job descriptions and take a landscape architecture interest quiz.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Landscape Architects
A general description of the landscape architect profession, including work conditions, and training requirements.
Other
Ameican Society of Landscape Architects
Holds lots of information on landscape architecture. It has information about everything from upcoming landscape arcitecture events to information about the career.
Other
Okerstrom Lang Landscape Architects
This resource is the homepage of a landscape architecture firm in Massachusetts. It provides photos from the firm's parks and recreational, residential, commercial, and streetscapes portfolio.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes
Embrace nature when considering architectural design to bring the two together. Prof. Jan Wampler provides several resources including video clips.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Landscape Architects
This site has a good description of the nature of working as a landscape architect. Qualifications, education job outlook and earnings, with links to realted occupations are included in this site.
Other
Council of Independent Colleges: Historic Campus Architecture Project
Explore this database of independent colleges that has a compilation of information and pictures of significant architecture, landscaping, and campus plans. You can browse by time period, university name, and type of architecture.
Virginia Tech
International Archive of Women in Architecture
The IAWA was established in 1985 at Virginia Tech to document the history of women's involvement in architecture. Check out the Online Inventory and other links associated with this site.