1. Teacher Guide
This lesson is designed to teach kids to ask a critical thinking question that you can’t just put into a search box to solve. To do that, we encourage them with smaller questions that search can help them answer. Make sure that you read the notes for each slide: they not only give you teaching tips but also provide answers and hints so you can help the kids if they are having trouble.
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Want to extend today’s lesson? Consider using Skype in the Classroom to arrange for your class to chat with another class in today’s location. And if you are using Windows 8, you can also use the Bing apps to learn more about this location and topic; the Travel and News apps in particular make great teaching tools.
Alice Keeler is a mother of 5 and a teacher in Fresno, California. She has her B.A in Mathematics, M.S. in Educational Media Design and Technology and is currently working on a doctorate in Educational Technology with an emphasis in games and simulations. EdTech speaker, blogger, and presenter. Founder of coffeeEDU, a 1 hour conference event for educators. New Media Consortium Horizon report advisory panel member. High school math teacher for 14 years. Currently teaching pre-service teachers curriculum, instruction and technology at California State University Fresno. Teaches online for Fresno Pacific University in the Masters in Educational Technology. Passionate that kids are not failures, researches gamification in education to increase student motivation.
This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: English Language Arts
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W E Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W D Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the complexity of the topic.

2. What makes a building design art?
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Having this up as kids come in is a great settle down activity. You can start class by asking them for thoughts about the picture or about ideas on how they could solve the question of the day.

3. What makes a building design art?
No need to ask where the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is in Manhattan. You can just call it the Guggenheim. Like its counterparts in Abu Dhabi, Bilbao, and Venice, the New York Guggenheim Museum is itself a work of art.
The museum’s namesake founded the gallery in a rented building in 1939, to share his growing collection of impressionist and modern art. By 1943, Guggenheim had purchased land in New York City to build a permanent home for his collection, and commissioned architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design a building.
Solomon Guggenheim died in 1949, delaying construction of the building. Then Frank Lloyd Wright also died, on April 9, 1959, further complicating things. But the museum finally opened about six months after Wright’s death, on this day in So neither Guggenheim nor Wright got to see the final product. But Wright’s unusual spiral layout of the interior combined with Guggenheim’s amazing art collection, continues to delight visitors today.
Depending on time, you can either have students read this silently to themselves, have one of them read out loud, or read it out loud yourself.

4. What makes a building design art?1
Web Search
Define “Art.” 2
Define: “Architecture.” 3
Thinking
How might the definition of art be applied to the concept of architecture? 4
Image Search
Locate some buildings that are considered works of art? 5
What are some common characteristics that these buildings share that cause them to be considered works of art?
There are a couple of ways to use this slide, depending on how much technology you have in your classroom. You can have students find answers on their own, divide them into teams to have them do all the questions competitively, or have each team find the answer to a different question and then come back together. If you’re doing teams, it is often wise to assign them roles (one person typing, one person who is in charge of sharing back the answer, etc.)

5. What makes a building design art?5
Minutes
You can adjust this based on how much time you want to give kids. If a group isn’t able to answer in 5 minutes, you can give them the opportunity to update at the end of class or extend time.

6. What makes a building design art?1
Web Search
Define “Art.” 2
Define: “Architecture.” 3
Thinking
How might the definition of art be applied to the concept of architecture? 4
Image Search
Locate some buildings that are considered works of art? 5
What are some common characteristics that these buildings share that cause them to be considered works of art?
You can ask the students verbally or let one of them come up and insert the answer or show how they got it. This way, you also have a record that you can keep as a class and share with parents, others.

7. What makes a building design art?1
Web Search
Define “Art.”
(Possible Search Queries: “Define: Art”)
Sources
Wikipedia:
Dictionary.com:
Students should note while definitions may differ they all include concepts such as: creativity, imagination, beauty and something beyond the regular, purely functional and ordinary.

8. What makes a building design art?2
Web Search
Define: “Architecture.”
(Possible Search Queries: “Define: Architecture”)
Sources
wikipedia:
Dictionary.com:
Merriam-Webster.com:
While definitions may vary, students should note that architecture deals with the planning and building of buildings. Also, architecture itself is often contained under the broad definitions of “art” in general.

9. What makes a building design art?3
Thinking
How might the definition of art be applied to the concept of architecture?
Students should recognize that the design and construction of a building would need to involve a more creative purpose that may serve aesthetic goals rather than purely functional ones.

10. What makes a building design art?4
Image Search
Locate some buildings that are considered works of art?
(Possible Search Queries: “Buildings that are works of art,” “Artistic Architecture,” “Architecture Art”)
Sources
Bing Image Search:

11. What makes a building design art?5
Thinking
What are some common characteristics that these buildings share that cause them to be considered works of art?
Students should note that some common characteristics may include: a highly decorative or ornate component, an aesthetic appeal that goes beyond the functional, pragmatic use or something that is unique and reflects a higher degree of artifice, planning and creativity.

12. What makes a building design art?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.