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Martha
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Posted: June 12 2007 at 5:01pm \| IP Logged

I love his books, the kids are fascinated by his books, surely someone somewhere has used these in unit sutdies?

Anyone care to help point the way?

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Posted: June 13 2007 at 10:00am \| IP Logged

Well, I used Cathedral in our Sacred Architecture unit, Ship in our sailing unit, Pyramid in our Egyptian unit, and both City and Rome Antics during our Rome unit.
We own, but have not yet used Mill and Mosque.
We LOVE David Macaulay!

ETA:How could I forget we used Castle during our Medieval unit!

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Posted: June 13 2007 at 10:39am \| IP Logged

We used his DVD's available from Netflix. The zoom kids have a challenge at the end of the DVD...they make a dome out of taped newspaper rolls on the Dome DVD...make a tunnel through sand using a few simple tools on the tunnels DVD....etc My children loved these!

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Posted: June 13 2007 at 11:24am \| IP Logged

lapazfarm wrote:

ETA:How could I forget we used Castle during our Medieval unit!

Specifically Theresa and Wonderboy did this study!

There is also a great architecture unit study in the most recent Heart and Mind magazine (spring 07). It uses Building Big, Castles, Pyramid, City, Cathedral, and Unbuilding as part of the resources. This website was developed to go along with the unit.

We've just discovered the Building BIG (PBS Series) which Donna Marie mentioned. They are great. The website has lots of educational resources which would be a great start for a unit study. After seeing this series and reading Deborah Hopkinson's Sky Boys I'm working on a skyscraper unit study so maybe will have something to post in a month or so.

Macaulay's Angelo is one of the books in FIAR Volume 4 so you can get a unit study there.

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