Cultivate Creativity in the Classroom

1. Intro
   • Architecture combines physics and engineering with visual appeal and design
   • As your students build their dream house, they will have to think through all these different aspects
2. Prompt
   • Design a structure where you would want to live or visit
   • Allow 15-30 minutes for building
   • Be creative as you consider various ways to represent structures and places with wooden blocks (Consider: How could you build a circular pond out of KEVA Planks?)
   • Ask your students to explain what they built and why
   • Take photos of the creations your students made
3. Skills Developed
   • Develops imagination and encourages creative thinking
   • Trains students to verbalize their thought-process
   • Execution of ideas
   • Understand the power of multiple iterations
   • When working in pairs or groups, students learn how to compromise their ideas to develop something together
   • Strengthens friendships within the classroom