Architecture Through the Ages Comparing similar structures across time

Focusing question How did different cultures create buildings for the same purposes? How did these structures change across time?

Your Assignment Choose a particular type of building Find an example of this type of building from three cultures from different historical time periods. Create a PowerPoint slideshow comparing the three buildings. Give an oral presentation before the class that uses your PowerPoint slideshow.

Types of Buildings The Great Buildings Collection CBECS Glass Steel and Stone

Other Resources History for Kids About.com The Great Buildings Online Digital Imaging Project

Standards SS2.I.1A: Students know the social and economic characteristics, such as customs, traditions, child-rearing practices, ways of making a living, education, and socialization practices, gender roles, foods, and religious and spiritual beliefs that distinguish different cultures and civilizations. SS2.I.2A: Students develop timelines by placing important events and developments in world history in their correct chronological order. SS2.I.3C: Students classify historic information according to the type of activity or practice: social/cultural, political, economic, geographic, scientific, technological, and historic. SS2.I.4C: Students view history through the eyes of those who witnessed key events and developments in world history by analyzing their literature, diary accounts, letters, artifacts, art, music, architectural, drawings, and other documents.