In Fifth grade, students studied famous buildings from around the world. We looked at Stonehenge, the Parthenon, the Taj Mahal, St. Basil's Cathedral, Medieval Castles, and Notre Dame Cathedral. We created our own architectural drawings using an inspiration sheet with different elements: doors, windows, arches, domes, etc. The students needed to pick at least three architectural elements.
After our drawings were completed, we learned about low relief sculptures. A perfect example for the students was the faces on a penny. Each student was given a piece of metal tooling that was 6" x 9" large. Underneath their work, they had a piece of felt so their lines would be nice and deep.
Students traced over there lines with a pencil and turned it over to double check that they had all of their desired lines before removing the drawing. Then, we colored in our buildings with colored sharpies. Students were encouraged to cut out their buildings to shape, but watch out, it is sharp!!Once complete, students needed to create a short written response about their building: what is the building type (a castle, church, mansion) in other words, why would someone go to this building? What is its purpose? And what three architectural elements does your building have?
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