Design properties
- Name
- Xanthi's Old Town Architecture
- Topic
- Architecture
- Learning time
- 2 hours and 30 minutes
- Designed time
- 2 hours and 30 minutes
- Size of class
- 25
- Description
- Students explore the different Architectural Designs in Xanthi's Old Town
- Aims
- To explore their cities Old Town and familiarized with the different Architectural Techniques
- Outcomes
-
- Define The historical period that most of the houses in Old Town were built
- Find out/discover The different architectural styles that were applied
- Compare (and contrast) The architectural techniques and find commonities and differencies
- Construct an interactive map of images of characteristic houses in Old Town
- Editor
- stavrianos
Timeline controls
Timeline
Documentary and learning
45 minutes)
-
Read Watch Listen2025Students watch a 20mins documentary about Xanthi's Old Town called "Xanthi's Old Town. An open air museum"
-
Investigate2525Students visit a web site to learn and investigate some of the different architectural styles. They work in groups and each group has to choose a specific style. They spot specific houses in the Old Town.
Notes:
Resources linked: 0
Taking Pictures
60 minutes)
-
Investigate6025Students go out of the school in teams and look for the houses they found out in the previous steps. Each team should find 3 houses. They shoot photos of each house.
Notes:
Resources linked: 0
Interactive map Production
45 minutes)
-
Collaborate1025Each team goes to the IT lab and using Google maps find the city's Old Town
-
Produce35Using ThingLink.com they create the interactive map using the info they collected in the first step and the photographs they shot at the second step.
Notes:
Resources linked: 0
Learning Experience
One or more graphs might not display correctly, because one or more learning types do not have duration set.
Social learning graph will not display correctly, because no class size is set.
Social learning graph will not display correctly, because one or more learning types do not have group size set.