Shaping Space Educational Resource

Shaping Space is an educational resource designed to help teachers encourage young people to consider and explore a range of social, environmental, technical and aesthetic issues related to architecture and the built environment.

Starting with their own homes and communities, the programme invites students to look at different types of buildings and towns, explore planning, design, materials, building technology, conservation and preservation in Ireland and in other societies and other ages.

Students can get involved in design exercises, sketching, drawing, plans and models, field trips, surveys and seminars. If the potential for Cross-Curricular Connections is exploited students can produce art or craft work, photographs, film, poetry, music, essays, furniture, landscapes, prototypes, scientific, social or economic reports, public presentations and debates.

Shaping Space is carefully designed to meet the real needs of schools, teachers and students. The programme can be adjusted to suit the needs of individual schools and students, and its format ensures that any school can include a single module or a year-long course within the academic year. Shaping Space is designed for fifteen to sixteen year olds, but it can also be used for young children or for older students.

Shaping Space is a book of almost 300 pages of lesson plans, worksheets, projects and homework assignments. It is designed so that a teacher with no architectural knowledge can take on a Shaping Space module with confidence, and it encourages collaboration between teachers from different disciplines. Teachers of history or geography, art or construction studies, mathematics or music, science, languages and literature, home economics, social, environmental, business, computer or media studies will all find opportunities in this resource.

Shaping Space is structured around three modules:

  • My Home
  • Neighbourhood, Village, Town City and
  • Buildings through History

Shaping Space Downloads

Option A - My Home

Option A - Lessons

Option A - Worksheets

Note: All of the Shaping Space documents linked to are PDF documents. To view them you will need the latest version of Acrobat Reader. This can be downloaded free from the Adobe website.

 

Option B - Neighbourhood, Village, Town, City

Option B - Lessons

Option B - Worksheets

Note: All of the Shaping Space documents linked to below are PDF documents. To view them you will need the latest version of Acrobat Reader. This can be downloaded free from the Adobe website.

 

Option C - Buildings Through History

Option C - Lessons

Option C - Worksheets

Note: All of the Shaping Space documents linked to below are PDF documents. To view them you will need the latest version of Acrobat Reader. This can be downloaded free from the Adobe website

 

Guidelines

 

Information Sheets



Note: All of the Shaping Space documents linked to are PDF documents. To view them you will need the latest version of Acrobat Reader. This can be downloaded free from the Adobe website.