A curriculum unit which was written for a sixth grade class with a time span of approximately six weeks: The unit contains activities to show the students the significance of how the human body is related to architecture. Architecture is a visual art but it is also important for the students to learn how to experience it. The students I teach live in an urban environment so I will frequently refer to city architecture.   A building should express their uniqueness and bring order and relation to its surrounding environment. A house occupies a space but with occupants and time it will become a place. The visual beauty includes lines, shapes, and color. Color is used to accentuate its form and the material it is made from, as well as distinguishing its divisions of space. Rooms which are shaped differently with different materials reflect different qualities. We express feelings from an architectural form or a specific aspect of architecture. The external features of architecture communicate feelings and moods from one place to another. Our emotional feelings toward where we live can be incorporated in our architecture interacting with the environment.
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