Built Environment

Line printing is a great way to focus on the built environment, starting simply with the formation of geometric shapes and constructing with those shapes. Focusing on architectural elements, changes and adaptations around the world and over time awakens interest in many subjects. Line printing lends itself to exploring the construction and engineering of a variety structures. What is in your local environment that could be studied and represented?

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Shapes

30 minutes
Learning to print shapes opens up the world of geometry and construction. Explorers of any age develop their own strategies and gain respect for the ideas of their peers when…
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Buildings

30 minutes
Houses and buildings are common themes in children’s early representational work. As children print shapes, connect them and add to them, structures in the built environment are sure to emerge.…
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Architecture

(2) 45-minute sessions
The task of printing a structure that includes one or more architectural elements can awaken children’s interest in architecture, history and mythology.
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Simple Machines

45 minutes
When students create simple machines and combine them to create complex machines they develop and practice awareness and understanding of different kinds of simple machines and unique ways to use…
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Murals

(2) 45-minute sessions
Working together on a mural can be a way to grow a classroom community and to foster relationships among learners.
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