Architecture for Kids

After realizing how little I know about Church architecture earlier today while spending time on the internet avoiding doing dishes, I am thinking about doing a unit study on Church architecture for our homeschool. You know, we'll just fit it in between the other dozen or so things we're doing ;)

Doing something like this would be cool though, it would encompass math, science, engineering, history, art, music, literature, religion.... and we could tour our local Cathedral as a field trip! And other cool local Catholic Churches! Plus back in the olden days when I actually was an engineer, I helped out with a really good series called Building Big that was a special on PBS. Our state was chosen as one of the places that received a grant to teach this material to 4th and 5th graders, and I got to go tour WGBH in Boston too! It rained the whole time we were there, but it was still fun to tour the TV Station. So anyway, I have some extra teaching materials left over from that somewhere in a box, I hope, unless it got thrown out in the move.

Anyway, I don't know if we'll get to it this semester, or next, but here is a really cool website I found while researching this possibility. It is from love2learn:

Architecture for Kids

Is that cool or what?

HT Worm on the Notre Dame de Chartres image