Architecture Tiles

Ok, so here goes, my first blog post... we shall see.  I was on Pinterest when I stumbled upon another teacher that was doing architecture tiles... and I thought, "Hey that is super awesome!"  I want to do that in my room... hence a summer of pinning architecture images, annoying my hubby with my hours of image hoarding and confusing my friends with my sudden interest in a wide variety of architecture begun.  And I must say the results of the hours of planning were pretty fair. 

Check out the iMovie... (next year this will be used as a trailer for the lesson)
Architecture Tile iMovie

At this point- I am unsure if I just insert the entire lesson plan here.... I will be deciding.  I'd like to share the PowerPoint's with anyone interested but there are 10 of them.... and because they are images they are huge....  Really not intending to sound rude I do not have time to e-mail them upon every request; but I would like to make them available for teachers to use so you don't have to go through the hours of copy and pasting images so you can print them as resources for students. (If you are a teacher and are reading this- I am sure you understand. Especially if you are and art teacher. )  Let's be realistic only teacher really understand that we have no extra time... ok and their spouses.  When I mentioned starting a blog.... my husband looked at me like I had gone nuts.... "Yeah hun, with what time?"  All the extra time it seems I have here on New Years Eve.   

Edit on 1/2/14: Let's see how this works- I've saved these to Google Docs, and embedded a link... Cheers!  If maybe one person out there could try to open these, and comment if it worked or not, that would be super helpful.  I can open them fine... but it that because I own the document?  Thank you.

Lesson Plan  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByayVUBQWw2JVnRaQkFGX2szT2M/edit?usp=sharing

Student Work Samples for Day Two activity   https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByayVUBQWw2JT2hnZmtvSXY1MXc/edit?usp=sharing

Image File 1 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByayVUBQWw2JWTdienFpc0JTWW8/edit?usp=sharing

Image File 2 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByayVUBQWw2JdXRDN05KaVJpN2M/edit?usp=sharing

Image File 3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByayVUBQWw2JZnVJTEozc1Q5Y00/edit?usp=sharing

Image File 4 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByayVUBQWw2JeGJvbVFvem1DUGM/edit?usp=sharing

Image File 5 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByayVUBQWw2JVGMzYWVjaFlJQlE/edit?usp=sharing

Image File 6  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByayVUBQWw2JOTMwWmdMRTg0Zkk/edit?usp=sharing

Image File 7  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByayVUBQWw2JS0FvOTJ1aG1FelE/edit?usp=sharing

Image File 8  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByayVUBQWw2JM1FLU0ltNk9OVVE/edit?usp=sharing

Image File 9 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByayVUBQWw2JUXRsbEhjNGdQU2s/edit?usp=sharing

Image File 10  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByayVUBQWw2JMlZHY3ExOTNWZGc/edit?usp=sharing

Family Critique  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByayVUBQWw2JQmd5Y2pGNHBITTQ/edit?usp=sharing


Update 11/6/16 I'm getting ready to do this lesson again.. I have just made three copies of each image. When tracing the kids do rip the paper when it becomes wet from the clay.  I am also going to emphasize textures.  I hate say you must do at least... X number of textures.... the kids you are really motivated do not need a number and the ones who are ot motivated and who do just the minimum to get by do need this number.  I'm thinking that I will say 4 for an A, 3 B, 2 C. Obviously there will be some wiggle room.  The other key is to emphasize subtractive carving methods to create a low relief tile... this is not a sandwich.