Lesson Six – City Buildings

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and design models to show some of the special buildings that can be found in a city using different shape patterns for walls and roofs.

The class can practise using and combining materials to illustrate some of the patterns that can be seen in a range different city locations for specific functions.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and design models to show some of the special buildings that can be found in a city using different shape patterns for walls and roofs

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the shapes and patterns that can be seen on buildings in a city and a worksheet to select and create patterns to use when making models of different city buildings.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to design models of buildings that can be found in a city using different patterns.

This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and model some of the different patterns of shapes that can be seen on buildings and street furniture around a city location. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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