🏙️ Estudo das Construções

As crianças investigam the buildings that make up their communities while discovering architecture, construction, engineering, neighborhoods, and the many ways buildings help people live, work, learn, and play.

🏗️ Engineering
🏠 Community
📐 STEM
🧱 Hands On Learning

Questions to Investigar

Encourage children to ask questions, make predictions, observe carefully, and solve problems throughout the study.

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What Is A Construiring?

How are buildings alike and different? What makes a building useful?

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Who Construirs Construirings?

Discover architects, engineers, construction workers, electricians, plumbers, and many other community helpers.

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What Materiais Are Used?

Investigar wood, brick, steel, concrete, glass, stone, and recycled materials.

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Why Are Construirings Different?

Explorar how buildings change depending on weather, culture, purpose, and location around the world.

4

Weeks

60+

Atividades

10

Áreas de Interesse

100%

Hands On Learning

Investigação de Quatro Semanas

Each week builds upon children's questions while encouraging exploration, engineering, creativity, and resolução de problemas.

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Semana Um

O que é building? As crianças observam buildings around their homes, school, and community while identifying different types and purposes.

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Semana Dois

How are buildings made? Explorar construction workers, tools, blueprints, building materials, and engineering.

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Semana Três

Projetar and build using blocks, recycled materials, cardboard, wood pieces, and loose parts while testing strength and stability.

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Semana Quatro

Comparar homes and buildings around the world while designing an imaginative community together.

Learning Goals

As crianças desenvolvem skills across every learning domain through meaningful investigations.

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Linguagem

Descrever buildings, ask questions, compare structures, and introduce new vocabulary.

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Matemáticaematics

Medir height, compare sizes, count windows, identify shapes, and create patterns.

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Ciência

Investigar balance, stability, gravity, weather, and building materials.

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Engineering

Projetar, build, test, redesign, and solve construction challenges.

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Criatividade

Draw blueprints, paint buildings, design neighborhoods, and build imaginative cities.

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Socioemocional

Work cooperatively while planning, sharing materials, and solving problems together.

Vocabulário

Introduce new words naturally during conversations, books, construction projects, and investigations.

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Construiring

Início, school, apartment, hospital, library, church, store, office.

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Construção

Blueprint, crane, hammer, excavator, cement, foundation, scaffold.

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Materiais

Brick, wood, steel, glass, stone, concrete, metal, roof.

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Matemática Words

Tall, short, wide, narrow, heavy, light, longer, stronger.

Materiais to Collect

Invite families to help gather recyclable materials before beginning the study.

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Boxes

Cereal boxes, shipping boxes, tissue boxes, shoe boxes, and food containers.

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Papelão Tubes

Paper towel rolls, tissue tubes, mailing tubes, and small cylinders.

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Construiring Materiais

Wood scraps, blocks, foam bricks, stones, popsicle sticks, corks, and loose parts.

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Construção Tools

Tape measures, rulers, clipboards, pencils, graph paper, and child safe tools.

Interest Area Investigaçãos

Extend children's learning throughout every classroom center with meaningful building experiences.

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Blocos e Construção

Construir homes, bridges, schools, hospitals, towers, neighborhoods, and entire cities while exploring balance, stability, measurement, and engineering.

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Jogo Dramático

Transform the classroom into a construction site with hard hats, blueprints, measuring tapes, tool belts, safety vests, and pretend building materials.

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Descoberta & STEM

Comparar bricks, wood, glass, stone, and metal while investigating which materials are strongest, waterproof, flexible, or heavy.

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Biblioteca & Literacy

Read books about construction workers, famous buildings, homes around the world, neighborhoods, and community helpers.

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Creative Arte

Tinta skylines, design colorful houses, create neighborhood murals, build cardboard sculptures, and draw architectural blueprints.

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Escrita Center

Draw building plans, label construction tools, create neighborhood maps, and write signs for classroom buildings.

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Sensorial Exploração

Explorar sand, gravel, rocks, dirt, water, wooden blocks, and loose construction materials through open ended investigation.

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Música e Movimento

March like construction workers, pretend to operate heavy equipment, sing building songs, and move like cranes, bulldozers, and dump trucks.

Literacy Experiences

Forçaen communication, vocabulary, and early reading skills throughout the Estudo das Construções.

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Interactive Leitura em Voz Altas

Discuss buildings, neighborhoods, community helpers, and construction while asking prediction and comprehension questions.

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Vocabulário Construiring

Introduce words such as architect, blueprint, foundation, structure, construction, engineer, roof, wall, and window.

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Story Dictation

Convide as crianças to describe the buildings they designed while adults record their words.

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Neighborhood Stories

Criar classroom books featuring children's homes, favorite buildings, and community landmarks.

Aprendizagem ao Ar Livre

Take the Estudo das Construções outside by observing real structures, exploring neighborhoods, and designing with natural materials.

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Neighborhood Walk

Walk around your school or neighborhood identifying homes, businesses, churches, schools, fire stations, and other community buildings.

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Construiring Hunt

Take photographs of interesting buildings and compare windows, doors, roofs, colors, and shapes back in the classroom.

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Natural Construirers

Use sticks, rocks, pinecones, leaves, and logs to create miniature houses and shelters outdoors.

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Medir Construirings

Estimate and compare the heights and widths of buildings, fences, playground structures, and trees.

Envolvimento da Família

Invite families to continue learning about buildings and construction together at home.

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Neighborhood Walk

Families identify different buildings while discussing who uses each one and why it is important.

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Photo Collection

Take pictures of interesting buildings and share them with the class.

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Recycled Materiais

Collect clean boxes, tubes, cartons, and containers to use during classroom construction projects.

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Construção Watch

Observar a construction project from a safe distance and discuss the equipment and workers.

ELOF Connections

The Estudo das Construções naturally supports every area of children's development.

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Linguagem e Alfabetização

As crianças descrevem observations, ask questions, listen to stories, and expand vocabulary.

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Social & Emotional

Cooperate with classmates while planning, designing, and constructing together.

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Cognition

Develop reasoning, prediction, engineering, and resolução de problemas skills.

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Perceptual, Motor & Physical

Forçaen fine and gross motor skills through measuring, building, carrying, stacking, and creating.

Teacher Tips

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Follow Children's Ideas

Permita que as perguntas e descobertas questions and discoveries to guide the direction of the investigation.

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Collect Materiais

Gather recycled materials throughout the study so children always have new construction possibilities.

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Document Learning

Photograph each stage of children's building projects to celebrate growth and persistence.

Faça Perguntas Abertas

"O que pode acontecer se...?" and "Como poderíamos tornar mais forte?" incentivam um pensamento mais profundo.

Featured Livros Infantis

Read quality nonfiction and fiction books throughout the investigation to encourage vocabulary, questioning, and curiosity.

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Construiring Livros

Read books showing how homes, bridges, skyscrapers, schools, and community buildings are constructed.

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Construção Workers

Learn about architects, engineers, electricians, plumbers, roofers, and builders who work together.

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Inícios Around the World

Comparar houses from different countries, climates, and cultures while celebrating diversity.

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Cities & Communities

Explorar neighborhoods, famous landmarks, and buildings that make communities unique.

Música e Movimento

Combine movement, rhythm, and imaginative play while learning about construction and community helpers.

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Construção Parade

Pretend to drive dump trucks, bulldozers, cranes, cement mixers, and excavators around the classroom.

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Construiring Músicas

Sing songs about building homes, neighborhoods, community helpers, and construction equipment.

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Stack & Equilíbrio

Mover carefully while balancing foam blocks, beanbags, or lightweight boxes like construction workers.

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Construirer Says

Play a construction themed version of Simon Says using actions such as hammer, lift, carry, measure, and build.

Vocabulário Wall

Display new words with photographs and real objects throughout the study.

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Construção

Arquiteto, planta baixa, fundação, andaime, engenheiro, empreiteiro.

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Materiais

Brick, concrete, wood, steel, glass, stone, metal, insulation.

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Construirings

Apartamento, escola, biblioteca, hospital, museu, igreja, escritório, restaurante.

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Matemática Words

Height, width, length, balance, estimate, compare, measure, stronger.

Continue Exploring

Extend children's investigations with related curriculum studies.