Inspired Design – Zach

Use curated resources from the library to research an accomplished architect. Compile your notes about the architect’s style (to include images that you discovered) onto a google doc or in NoodleTools. Build and record your citations on a google doc or in NoodleTools.

6th graders: put all of your work onto a google doc: notes, found images (paste in), MLA style bibliography. Title your doc Architecture Zach 2024      Share it with two people: Zachary.Norrbom@apsva.us and Margaret.Carpenter@apsva.us.  Good sketches of your own design in your sketchbook complete your project.

7th and 8th graders: gather all of your work into NoodleTools: sources, 5 notecards and pasted images. Good sketches in your sketchbook complete your project.

Project Name: 8 Zach Architect 2024 or 7 Zach Architect 2024  Select “starter” and “MLA” style.

Share with Zach F Block Arch 2024 or  Zach G Block Arch  2024  or Zach H Block Architecture 2024

Architects- choose from the list or get Zach’s approval for a different person (after you have found at least 2 sources about him or her):

Zaha Hadid
Frank Lloyd Wright
Maya Lin
David Adjaye
Julia Morgan  (not in Britannica)
Kenzo Tange
Norma Sklarek
Mia Lehrer
Le Corbusier
Denise Scott Brown
Charles Barry
Moshe Safdie
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
Francesco Borromini
Antoni Gaudi
Frank Gehry
Filippo Brunelleschi
I. M. Pei
Jeanne Gang
Choose from this list.

Concept words:  minimalism baroque Victorian architecture “glass houses”

H-B’s Library offers these lessons and database suggestions:

• 1. How to get to databases
  2. What are databases?
  3. “Browse Dewey” at our non-fiction shelves.
  4. Why start with a reference article?   (Encyclopedias and Wikipedia are reference sources because they REFER you to additional sources for detail.
  5. Help building citations and bibliographies in order to avoid plagiarism.
  6. Searching for resources:  In large databases and when Googling the open internet, apply advanced searching skills and Boolean Operators. Make sure you go to the “advanced search” screen from the home page in the large databases from Gale if you are swamped with too may “hits.”
  7. Even more Advanced Searching techniques are vital to use in Proquest Ebook Central. To develop ease, consider coming for support in the library during I-block or a free period.

Reference Sources are great for your START:

1. For an overview of your topic and its related subtopics, use the World Book or Britannica databases.
2. If you want materials that are focused on a specific person and their context and impact, try the database Gale’s Biography in Context.
3. Use the library’s catalog to look up your person or “architecture” or “sculpture” to find books in nonfiction that might be rich with illustrations and detail.
4. Move into Gale World History in Context database.  (Select the US History in Context database, instead, if you are studying a topic of US history.  Or if your project is about a person, use Gale Biographies in Context database.) Each of these databases provides professionally written articles from reference sources, magazines and primary sources.  Your article might provides carefully reviewed web sites and videos.  (The “Academic Journals” might be written for an older audience.)
5. If your historical topic happened anytime in the years 1700 – 2001, Salem History is the database to use. Use MackinVia.   We have the Salem BOOKS, too, if you prefer using print to working electronically.
6. If your person is from 1900 onward, try inside Mackinvia the database called Gale’s Pop Culture.
7. Then try your search terms in Wikipedia to see what sources it points to. Or try it on the open internet by way of Google
8. A Google search to examine “images” is fruitful for fast research about art topics. Just make sure you analyze the source of the image to be sure that it is what you are looking for.
9. Advanced Research: Put the name of your architect in “quotation marks” when you search the database called Proquest E-book Central which is inside Mackinvia. Use “advanced search” techniques and sources.  This is also a good database in which to try Architecture AND minimalism.

You have 2 library days to do your research. As you work, you must:

1) take good notes on a google doc or on NoodleTools notecards (at least 5 facts or descriptions. Put direct quotations in quotation marks.

2) Build your project’s bibliography with NoodleTools (7th and 8th graders), or paste your citations onto the end of your Google doc (6th graders) to show your high quality sources.

3) Use MLA style citations and put the heading “Works Cited” centered at the top of your bibliography.

4) Supply your inspired sketch in your sketchbook.