The field trip part of our lesson is over, but don't leave yet! Below you will find a "menu" of activities that you can do to show what you learned on this World Wide Web field trip. Try to complete at least one of the activities. Perhaps your teacher will give you extra credit if you choose to complete more than one of the activities! Check with your teacher to see if you and a partner, or small group, can work together on the activities.

1. Write a descriptive paragraph about a home in China, South Korea, or Japan. Compare this home to your home. Be sure to include what makes the home special. Include a small sketch of the home. Try to investigate how the geographic setting of your home would influence the type of building materials that were used to build your house, compared to the type of building materials used in China, South Korea or Japan.

2. Use all of your sketches (or create printouts from this lesson) to create a travel log of homes in Asia. Show your travel log to someone else and tell them about what you learned about homes in other places of the world.

3. Begin a set of models (this is where a partner or small group would come in handy!) of homes from around the voyage of the Pride. You could work on these models from time to time as the Pride continues its voyage. Ask your teacher where a good place for an Asian Architecture "museum" would be in your classroom. Descriptions should accompany your display items. Wouldn't this be a great thing to have ready for a spring PTA meeting?

4. If you could choose any of the homes that you saw or read about, which home would you choose as a "dream home" for a typical Asian person? Sketch this home and underneath the sketch write a short paragraph that explains why you this would be a "dream home" for an Asian family. Would it capitalize on its geographic setting? Would it use building materials only available in this country? Would it be designed in a special way? What would make it unique and appealing? What features are especially interesting? How is this "dream home" different than an American "dream home" might be? How might it be the same?

5. Now you create your very own "dream home" that incorporates elements of several of the homes that you learned about. Choose one of the Asian countries that Pride II will be visiting. Decide if you want your "dream home" to be in an urban, suburban, or rural setting. Decide which type of materials you would use to build your house, and what style of building you would use. Maybe you can even make a model of your Asian "dream house."

If you're really interested in what you learned about in this lesson, talk to your teacher about some other activities that you could do to learn more about architecture and home building.

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