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Author: Yoshio Komatsu Publisher: Shelter Publications, Inc. ISBN: 0936070358 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 56
Book Description
Fascinating and unique, Wonderful Houses Around the World gives children a welcome entrée into other places and other lives throughout the world. Glorious two-page photographic spreads capture families outside their homes, be they simple or imposing. Detailed cutaway illustrations reveal the inside of each house, showing the various family members engaged in typical daily activities. Captions explain where each house is located, the environmental conditions that affect the house design, how the family lives in the home, and their possessions -- all providing interesting glimpses of life in other cultures. The ten houses profiled include a red mud dwelling with thatched towers in Togo, a yurt in Mongolia, a steep-roofed, shake-covered house in Transylvania, and a large donut-shaped communal building for 300 in China. This book increases children's wonder about and cultural awareness of the many different people and ways of life around the world.
Author: Yoshio Komatsu Publisher: Shelter Publications, Inc. ISBN: 0936070358 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 56
Book Description
Fascinating and unique, Wonderful Houses Around the World gives children a welcome entrée into other places and other lives throughout the world. Glorious two-page photographic spreads capture families outside their homes, be they simple or imposing. Detailed cutaway illustrations reveal the inside of each house, showing the various family members engaged in typical daily activities. Captions explain where each house is located, the environmental conditions that affect the house design, how the family lives in the home, and their possessions -- all providing interesting glimpses of life in other cultures. The ten houses profiled include a red mud dwelling with thatched towers in Togo, a yurt in Mongolia, a steep-roofed, shake-covered house in Transylvania, and a large donut-shaped communal building for 300 in China. This book increases children's wonder about and cultural awareness of the many different people and ways of life around the world.
Author: Giles Laroche Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0547238924 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 37
Book Description
Features detailed, bas-relief collage spreads of dwellings in other world regions and historical times to explain how different people live and have lived, from a village house in South Africa to a floating green house in the Netherlands.
Author: Clare Lewis Publisher: Raintree ISBN: 1406281956 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 26
Book Description
This book looks at the rich diversity of homes around the world. Through simple text and stunning photographs, it introduces children to similarities found in homes in different cultures, and honors differences.
Author: Emma Damon Publisher: All Kinds of... S. ISBN: 9781857076776 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 16
Book Description
Looking at dwellings around the world, this lift-the-flap book explores what homes can look like, what they’re made of, and who lives there. It includes Bedouin tents, Dutch barges, African mud houses, Moroccan houses with tiled courtyards, glass houses, and more. There is a Thai river house and a brick apartment building to cut out and assemble.
Author: Witold Rybczynski Publisher: Turtleback Books ISBN: 9780613181310 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 234
Book Description
A book about architecture: what architects do, how they get it right, what an architectural genius can see, and what distinguishes architecture from other arts. Illustrated.
Author: A. G. Smith Publisher: Dover Publications ISBN: 9780486413228 Category : Architecture, Domestic Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Forty-five accurate representations of a Bedouin tent, Nebraska sod house, pioneer log cabin, Swiss chalet, Irish thatched farmhouse, Inuit igloo, and other traditional forms of housing. Captions.
Author: Yoshio Komatsu Publisher: Shelter Publications, Inc. ISBN: 9780936070346 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 52
Book Description
A picture is worth a thousand words; the 10 photos in this book, along with the accompanying descriptive detailed drawings, make this a very informative book for children. There has never been a photographer of buildings like Yoshio Komatsu. He has travelled extensively around the world for 25 years, photographing hand-built homes. Photos from Mongolia, China, Indonesia, India, Romania, Tunisia, Spain, Togo, Senegal, and Bolivia. Each structure is beautifully photographed, and then colorfully rendered in pen and wash, with many descriptive captions explaining the everyday life of children and families in these homes.
Author: Jennifer Lawson Publisher: Portage & Main Press ISBN: 1553799518 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 216
Book Description
Filled with a year’s worth of classroom-tested hands-on, minds-on activities, this resource conveniently includes everything both teachers and student need. The grade 2 book is divided into two units: Changing Family and Community Traditions Global Communities STAND-OUT FEATURES focuses on the goals of the Ontario Social Studies curriculum adheres to the Growing Success document for assessment, evaluating, and reporting in Ontario schools builds understanding of Indigenous knowledge and perspectives TIME-SAVING, COST-EFFECTIVE FEATURES includes the five components of the inquiry model opportunities for self-reflection and activating prior knowledge authentic assessment for, as, and of learning social studies thinking concepts, guided inquiry questions, and learning goals support for developing historical thinking skills access to digital image banks and digital reproducibles (Find download instructions in the Appendix of the book)