Beyond the door.What do you see when you look at a door? Maybe you sense its physical presence to its history and potential or think about the opportunities that await you on the other side. Thanks to the Door Project, students now see beyond the frame, panels, knobs, and hinges. The Door Project, an art-based, cross discipline study of architecture, was conceived during the Artreach Institute hosted by the Portland Museum of Art The Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine was founded as the "Portland Society of Art" in 1882. Located in the downtown area known as The Arts District, it is the state's largest and oldest public art institution. in Portland, Maine Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine, with a 2004 population of 63,882. Portland is Maine's cultural, social and economic capital. Tourists are drawn to Portland's historic Old Port district along Portland Harbor, which is at the mouth of the Fore River and part , to promote joint efforts between art specialists, teachers, and the museum. Originally developed for elementary students, it can be adapted for use at any level. The project involved administrators, teachers, specialists, school staff, the community, and parents. Children's books provide the basic resources. Starting With Your School Our school's award-winning structure was an educational experience for all who entered. Large signs labeled architectural features and structural aspects. Bulletin boards provided door related games and activities based on the book, I Know That Building. Elaboration and decoration in architecture centered on the ceramic mural mural Painting applied to and made integral with the surface of a wall or ceiling. Its roots can be found in the universal desire that led prehistoric peoples to create cave paintings—the desire to decorate their surroundings and express their ideas and beliefs. and the relief work by Maine artists Paul Hereaux and George Mason. The librarian (in addition to helping all of us with resources) made a display of all the staff's doors and posed the challenge, "Whose Door Is It?" Everyone enjoyed guessing. A guest story teller Story Teller (sold as Story Time in Australia and New Zealand) was a magazine partwork published by Marshall Cavendish between 1982 and 1985. Publishing History The original Story Teller was released in 1982 as a fortnightly (bi-weekly) partwork. showed photographs of Louisiana CODE, OF LOUISIANA. In 1822, Peter Derbigny, Edward Livingston, and Moreau Lislet, were selected by the legislature to revise and amend the civil code, and to add to it such laws still in force as were not included therein. mansions and held students spellbound with stories about crocodiles crawling around the doors of these beautiful homes. The Door Project involved specialists, too. Music lyrics were about people being the key to the door of life. Creative movement in physical education took place through doors and openings, and the speech and English as a Second Language teachers used door related words. The school nurse carried around the "door to good health," a small box with a working door. Inside she placed props which she used to teach about healthy habits healthy habit Good habit, see there like brushing teeth, washing hands, and other health related issues. Opening Other Doors The school counselor A school counselor is a counselor and educator who works in schools, and have historically been referred to as "guidance counselors" or "educational counselors," although "Professional School Counselor" is now the preferred term. used symbolic doors behind which were solutions to problems such as getting angry, being upset, or feeling alone. The students were asked to imagine themselves opening the door and "seeing" themselves responding in appropriate ways. The Door Project was a great success! It involved everyone. It covered many disciplines and opened a multitude of doors. It was the entrance to excitement, imagination, and discovery. Go ahead! Open a door of your own! Resources Ahearn, Margaret. "Mud, Walls, and Doors." Teaching. Aug./Sept., 1988. D'Alelio, lane. I Know That Building. Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1989. Epes, Carolyn. "A Case for Architecture." School Arts. March 1987. Finch, Christopher. Norman Rockwell's America. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of : Abradale and Abrams, 1985. Kaplan, Don. Learning by Design. American Institute of Architects The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Organized in 1857, the Institute conducts various activities and programs to support the profession and enhance its public image, including periodically awarding the AIA . RELATED ARTICLE: Kindergarten Activities Math * Construct various arches and entry ways with building blocks. * Create collages depicting place values of house numbers. * Graph the number of doors in different: parts of the school. Science * Read House is a House For Me. (Mary Ann Hoberman, Scholastic, 1986). * Compare and contrast animal habitats using a learning web. * Create a bulletin board display of entrances to animal habitats. Language Arts language arts pl.n. The subjects, including reading, spelling, and composition, aimed at developing reading and writing skills, usually taught in elementary and secondary school. * Read Alfie Gets in First. (Shirley Hughes, Morris, 1981). * Collect and label pictures of doors, extending descriptive vocabulary to include emergency doors, fire doors, sliding doors, hatches, hinged lids, etc. Social Studies * Examine photos of local buildings' doors. Discuss the functions of doors. Art * Discuss the significance of the door in several of Norman Rockwell's illustrations. * Cut basic shapes to create a collage of a door. RELATED ARTICLE: First Grade Activities Math * Read Building a House. (Byron Barton, Greenwillow Books) and I Can Be An Carpenter (Dee Lillegard, Children's Press, 1986). * Invite a carpenter to demonstrate measuring and constructing cabinet doors. * Estimate the number of pieces used to make a door. Science * Read The House I Live In (Isadore Seltzer, MacMillan, 1992). * Compare and contrast the materials used by various people for their homes. Draw a picture of your own home. Discuss what it is made from and why. Language Arts * Read This is My House. (Arthur Dorros, Scholastic, 1992). * Fold a piece of paper in half. On the front make a drawing of your own home's door decorated for a holiday. On the inside, write a description of holiday traditions carried out by your family. Social Studies * Read This is a House (Colleen col·leen n. An Irish girl. [Irish Gaelic cailín, diminutive of caile, girl, from Old Irish. Bare, Cobblehill/Dutton, 1992) * Cooperate in constructing a table top town. Make buildings from milk cartons and small boxes. Create interesting doorways. * Draw a map of the table top town. Art * Read Archabet (Balthazar Korab Balthazar Korab (1926 - ) is a photographer based in Detroit, Michigan who specializes in architectural, art and landscape photography. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, and migrated to France after fleeing from Hungary's communist government in 1949. , Preservation Press, 1985) and I Can Be an Architect. (Susan Clinton, Children's Press, 1986). * Pretend to be commissioned to design a door for a very fancy new building. Use cut paper to complete the designs to include hinges, knobs, mail slots, and any other details you can think of. RELATED ARTICLE: Second Grade Activities Math * Read Architects Make Zigzags. (Diane Maddex, Preservation Press, 1986). * Draw building facades combining geometric shapes This is a list of geometric shapes. Generally composed of straight line segments
Science * Read What it Feels Like to Be a Building (Forest Wilson, Preservation Press, 1988). * Discover what structural aspects were developed because of new scientific discoveries. Language Arts * Read A Dark, Dark Tale. (Ruth Brown, Dial Books, 1981). * Write a story about what could exist behind a door, such as parties, sporting events, monsters, or imaginary worlds An imaginary world is a setting, place or event or scenario at variance with objective reality, ranging from the voluntary suspension of disbelief of fictional universes and the socially constructed consensus reality of the "Social Imaginary", to alternate realities resulting from with fanciful creatures. Social Studies * Read What it Feels Like to Be a Building (Forest Wilson, Preservation Press, 1988). * Consider how the structure of a building works in relationship to people. * Interpret building functions through creative movement exercises. Art * Read books by David McCaulay: Castle, Cathedral, Mill, and Pyramid (Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. The company's headquarters is located in Boston's Back Bay. It publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers ). * Learn about the secret doors and passageways of the Egyptian pyramids The Pyramids of Egypt are among the largest constructions ever built[1] and constitute one of the most potent and enduring symbols of Ancient Egyptian civilization. Most were built during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods[2]. , the Greek pediments and columns, and Medieval castle doors. * Manipulate paper to create entries representing different periods in architecture. RELATED ARTICLE: Third Grade Activities Math * Read I Can Be An Architect (Susan Clinton, Children's Press, 1986). * Invite an architect to explain how to draw and read blue prints, floor plans, and design models. * Design your own floorplan. Science * View slides of doors from many cultures and civilizations from around the world and throughout history. * Discuss the materials used as it relates to their attributes as building materials--durability, functionality, versatility, etc. Language Arts * Build a working vocabulary of architectural terms by locating and labeling building parts, structural aspects and architectural features. * Locate architectural elaborations in your school. Write a descriptive paragraph about an area of the school for classmates Classmates can refer to either:
Social Studies * Invite a local historian or knowledgeable senior citizen to take students on a walking tour of an architecturally interesting part of town. * Use photocopied photographs of architectural details (taken by the teacher) for a scavenger hunt scavenger hunt n. A game in which individuals or teams try to locate and bring back miscellaneous items on a list. to become acquainted with different styles and a chronology of architecture in the community. * Make sketches of doorways seen on the tour. Art * View slides of a chronological sequence Noun 1. chronological sequence - a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients" chronological succession, succession, successiveness, sequence temporal arrangement, temporal order - arrangement of events in time of doors, gates, and entry ways in works of art from the ancient past to the present. * Construct three-dimensional, futuristic doors using found objects. Joyce Bourre St. Pierre is an art specialist at Margaret Chase Smith Margaret Chase Smith (December 14, 1897–May 29, 1995) was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in Maine history. She was the first woman to be elected to both the U.S. School in San ford, Maine. |
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