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Guerilla Educators

Sustainable "Green" Architecture Project in 4th Grade

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This video depicts an inner city 4th grade class in Philadelphia that participated in an American Institute of Architects Architecture in Education ...
This video depicts an inner city 4th grade class in Philadelphia that participated in an American Institute of Architects Architecture in Education program with critical support from John Sole Founder of Guerilla Educators. It is a powerful synopsis of this 12 week project in which students working in small cooperative groups envisioned, then built models of their lunchroom as a state of the art, high performance, sustainably designed eating area. Architects from SchraderGroup came into the classroom once a week for 12 weeks to work with the students. The design schemes had to contain at least 4 sustainable elements. It is our firm belief that Project Based Service Learning (PBSL) is the most effective pedagogy to effectively educate ALL students regardless of demographic and that connecting school design directly to students, teachers, and curriculum is the gold standard of the PBSL methodology. To begin the process of elemental change in the culture of how we use and conserve our finite natural resources it is necessary to begin with our youngest citizens. Less
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