A resource to support teaching and learning through buildings and places
The leading guide to using buildings and places for learning. Lesson plans, teaching resources about architecture and design, great places to visit or learn about, details of other useful organisations and upcoming events. Whatever age or subject you are teaching – Engaging Places has something for you!
Open-City, new home of Engaging Places, is 20 this year. Find out more about the relocation of Engaging Places and what Open-City is doing to celebrate in the Open-City 2012 anniversary calendar.
Year 3 students at Geddington Primary School, Northamptonshire study a local monument and how it relates to our island story.
We think we know the places we use every day – but how well do we really know them? Here are five great teaching activities to help your pupils take another look at the buildings around them and learn from them.
What would your perfect house look like? This question can lead to some great activities for all ages...
What secrets lie behind the most famous door in the country? Find out here...
What does the Teaching Resources section have to offer? Find out here...
Architecture Centres have been creating lessons based on the Olympic sites for you to use - wherever your school is in the UK. And the school projects they've done will inspire you too!
How important is BIGNESS to our ideas about an event like the London Olympics? And where do you experience this sense of enormous scale yourself whatever part of the country you are in?
Wembley is the biggest of the six stadiums staging the London 2012 Olympic Games Football competition. It will host the gold medal events in both the Men's and Women's competition.
Streetscapes provide a host of hidden avenues for learning. On the doorstep, free to visit and with scope for inspiring activities across the curriculum - what are you waiting for?
Heritage Open Days celebrates England's architecture and culture by allowing visitors free access to interesting properties that are not usually open.
Engaging Places network projects show schools and cultural organisations enhancing the curriculum by working together.
Activities, resources and links to encourage your students to use the buildings and places around them as a source of design inspiration.
Students design a new community development.
Want to try work like this with your class? Try these ideas.
Inspired by stories about Kensington Palace and its inhabitants, year 5 students wrote, performed and directed films breathing new life into the past.
Presenting research that assesses the supply and demand of built environment education in schools throughout England.
What is Engaging Places and what does it have to offer you? Find out here...
Find out the benefits of built environment education and how buildings and places relates to the national curriculum.
Find out how to get in contact with the Engaging Places team.
List your educational resources and events on the Engaging Places website.
