Construct a basic shelter. Choose walls and roof. Consider what materials are available where. Build a family. Consider the problems your walls will protect them from: rain, snow, heat, fire, winds, floods, mice, bugs or wolves.
With an introduction of houses around the world from Arthur Dorros' This is My House*, students will then build their own houses with front or side yards, chimney, doorbell, fences, trees, steps, porch, flowers…whatever they can 'see' in their mind's eye as they walk toward their own front door.
*© 1992 Scholastic Hardcover by Arthur Dorros.
