Architecture starts simple when you're dealing with kids who are working at pre-school level of cognitive abilities. And because my students are blind, and may have never seen a house in it's entirity, I started my architecture unit with the parts of a house. Walls, roof, doors, and windows. I'd ask each student if they wanted a tall or short house, a triange or rectangle roof, a single or a double door. How many windows? How many panes in each window? Would you like shutters or a window box? What about a chimney for Santa? They make choices and glue each piece that I cut out cardboard according to their commands. What we end up with is a tactile version of an elevation of a house. Most kids know how to draw a recognizable house by kindergarten, but without vision, this is the next best thing. These houses are building blocks for our unit to continue, but they'd also make a fun craft for any preschooler.
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