Curated OER
Farm Vocabulary List and Definitions
In this farm vocabulary worksheet, learners learn 15 words pertaining to farming, agriculture and farm animals. Students read definitions for each word. There are no questions to answer.
Curated OER
The Design Revolution: Get the Word Out
Students research the "Design for the Other 90%" exhibition and create a presentation about the low cost designs. In this design lesson, students read and watch a video about the project. Students survey people about publicizing events....
Curated OER
Make A Farm
Students use legos to create a farm. In this farm lesson plan, students create farm animals, a fence, a barn, trees, and more.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Speedy Shelter
This challenge is to design and build a sturdy emergency shelter that can fit one person and easy to build. Are you up to the challenge?
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build
Do you like to build and create new things? Check out this collection of 48 different engineering activities providing opportunities for creative building using things around the house. These include activities like spinning, rubber band...
BBC
Bbc: Build an Iron Age House
Learn how to build an British Iron Age house by following these step by step instructions. Measurements given in metric system.
Other
Buggy and Buddy: Stem Challenge for Kids: Build a Shelter From the Sun
In this instructional activity, kids build a shelter from the sun and test it using a UV-sensitive bead animal they create. If the shaded animal changes colors, then your shelter did not work.
University of Arizona
University of Arizona Press: Adobe and Rammed Earth Buildings
Complete description of the book, "Adobe and Rammed Earth Buildings." A great resource to assist in the study of shelter. Read an excerpt of the book, and a summary as well.
Read Works
Read Works: Reef Building
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about wildlife workers who are building artificial reefs to provide food and shelter for sea life. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Center Card: Build an Animal Habitat
Children design an animal habitat and talk about how the habitat provides the animal's basic needs -- shelter, water, and food -- using this block center activity. It includes three resources.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Speedy Shelter (Pdf)
This is a hands-on challenge to invent a sturdy emergency shelter that's easy to build. Provides a full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, and redesign it if necessary. Activity focuses on the engineering design process...
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Structure, Cover, & Shelter
Learn how to build an appropriate habitat for birds and other animals to maintain structural diversity.
George Eastman Museum
George Eastman House: Shapes and Shelters Discovery Kits
Find a classroom-ready annotated slideshow and lesson plans designed to introduce students to fundamental architectural concepts and to improve their skills in recognizing the structural components of architecture. Slideshow uses...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Need for Shelter
In this lesson, the students will build a shelter in order to protect themselves from the rain. After the shelters are built, the class will perform durability and water proof testing on the shelters.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Science Rocks: Build a Tent
This site provides instructions on how to build a tent including materials needed. It focuses primarily on a model tent but gives hints to adapt it to an outdoor tent that could provide shelter from the weather.
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PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Paper Table (Pdf) [Pdf]
Build a table out of newspaper that can hold a heavy weight. Hands-on challenge to invent a sturdy emergency shelter that's easy to build. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, and redesign it if necessary....
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Resources and the Environment: Humans Design Their Homes
After hearing and discussing the story of The Three Little Pigs, students work in groups to construct houses using craft sticks. They then decide how well their house would serve as a living space and in what climatic conditions it would...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Energy Efficient Housing
We all know that it takes energy to provide us with the basics of shelter: heating, cooling, lighting, electricity, sanitation and cooking. To create energy-efficient housing that is practical for people to use every day requires...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Passive Solar Design
Students are introduced to passive solar design for buildings--an approach that uses the sun's energy and the surrounding climate to provide natural heating and cooling. They learn about some of the disadvantage of conventional heating...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Testing the Caverns
Students build model caverns and bury them in a tray of sand. They test the models by dropping balls onto them to simulate an asteroid hitting the Earth. By molding papier-mache or clay around balloons (to form domes), or around small...
Other
San Francisco Department of Emergency Management: 72 Hours: Are You Prepared?
Are you prepared for a major disaster or emergency? Would you know what to do until you could get help? Find out how to prepare yourself ahead of time by building an emergency supply kit and also what to do in a specific disaster such as...
Other
Woodland Indian Educational Programs: Coloring Pages
A collection of coloring pages depicting various Woodland native peoples in their daily lives growing and gathering food, building shelter, etc. Good illustrations of their clothing as well.
Read Works
Read Works: Tornado Scientists
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about tornadoes and the scientists who study them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Home, Sweet Home!
In this activity, the students will use wax paper shaped as leaves and kite string to build a shelter to protect them from the rain. The students will then test the shelters for durability and water resistance.