Unleash Your Inner Architect!

$19.50

This summer camp lesson plan is centered around building methods with hands-on, creative building activities and experiments to engage school-age learners. This summer camp unit offers five 6-hour lesson plans. They feature suggestions for hands-on activities, outdoor play, and social-emotional learning. Activities are standards-aligned to ensure quality content that helps students gain knowledge and prepare to move forward in grade school.

About our lesson plans:

  • Developed and tested by a team of experienced, certified educators

  • Immediate PDF download upon purchase with unlimited use

  • Activity pages, extension activities, and additional resources included at no cost

  • Developmentally appropriate

  • Printable format that is also digital friendly with links and QR codes embedded in the lesson plans

Camp Outline:

  • Arrival Activity
  • Class Discussion
  • Skyscraper Skeletons
  • Let’s Get Moving – Roll the Dice Race
  • Design Your Own Skyscraper
  • Hands-on Activity – Card Towers
  • Social-Emotional Learning – Many Hands Make a Load Light
  • Growing Skyscrapers
  • Reflection

  • Arrival Activity
  • Class Discussion
  • Pompom Shoot
  • Let’s Get Moving – Wrecking Ball Bowling
  • Hands-on Activity – Wrecking Ball Physics
  • Wrecking Ball Opposites
  • Social-Emotional Learning – Anger
  • Hands-on Activity – Demolition Fun
  • Reflection

  • Arrival Activity
  • Class Discussion
  • Blueprints
  • Let’s Get Moving – Catapult Volleyball
  • Catapult Construction
  • Hands-on Activity – Measuring Math
  • Social-Emotional Learning – It Takes a Team
  • Brick Mason
  • Reflection

  • Arrival Activity
  • Class Discussion
  • Wattle and Daub
  • Let’s Get Moving – Clothespin Tag
  • Hands-on Activity – Post and Lintel
  • Weight Relieving Triangles
  • Social-Emotional Learning – Vision Board
  • Cantilever Games
  • Reflection

  • Arrival Activity
  • Class Discussion
  • Soap Carving
  • Let’s Get Moving – Moving Earth
  • Tunnel Time
  • Hands-on Activity – Soil Studies
  • Social-Emotional Learning – Why Helmets
  • Grand Projects
  • Reflection