Inquiry and project learning about building

1. Common Experience
Build 3D structures
with Popsicle sticks
Curriculum area:
Math, Science, Language,
Cognitive area
Learning opportunity:
Children are able to learn and
explore 3D shapes and sense
of dimension by linking the
Popsicle sticks. They would
use their problem-solving
skills to work out how to get
3D the shapes.
Cues and Inquiries:
"All buildings are 3D.”
"What is the difference
between 2D and 3D
shapes?"
“Opportunities to explore materials support creativity, problem solving, and
mathematical behaviours.” (HDLH, p. 8)

2. Children imitate building sample
designs with blocks.
Learning the names of the structures
of famous the world using images
Learning opportunity:
Children can explore how
buildings are designed and built.
They may develop critical
thinking to imitate and build up
designed structures.
Curriculum area:
Find motor, Cognitive,
Social study, Creative art
Cues and Inquiries:
“This building is cool.
What name is the building?”
“I heard that CN tower. CN tower
in in Toronto.”
“I want to make this picture.”
“Is there live in people?”
Can you build this?
– World famous buildings
– Building shapes

3. “Meaning of House for
children”
• A home is where you a protected
and people can over and visit
• Home is a place with a mommy and
a daddy.
• My family live in house
• House can be a condo or a building.
Create my house
with cardboard
Curriculum Areas:
Social study,
Language, Cognitive,
Creative art and
Collaborative work
Learning opportunity :
Children are able to talk about
"meaning about home," and
build their house artwork.
They decorate home with
loose parts as they want to
represent.
“What do you mean about home?”
“What members of your family live
with you?”
“I will make my home for mom.”
“My house looks like what I made it.”
Children love building a house!
Children enable to design home throughout their imagination.

4. LEGO Duplo Blueprint
Cues and inquiry :
“I don’t know how can build a house.”
“How do you know what to decorate your
home?"
“How do all the construction workers know
what to do?”
3rd activity
Curriculum area:
Math, Cognitive, Social study, Science, Creative art
Learning opportunity:
Children discuss what a blueprint is, dip the Lego into
the paint and then stamp it onto the paper. They try
using their blueprint as a guide to build own structure
with LEGO.

5. During the activity, children were engage in
Learning opportunity:
Children investigate what is going to
happen to building’s condition as the
difference of materials through the story.
They understand the importance of
materials for the building.
Curriculum area:
Language, Literacy, Cognitive, Creative
art, Social study
conversation about the story and what kind of
material can use to build house.
Create the three
little pigs’ house
Cues and Inquiries:
“What are the good and bad materials
for building?”
“How we know which material is strong.”
“I think real bricks are very heavy so,
bricks are strong.”
“Why three little pigs use different
material when they build house?”