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• Measure the height and width of doorways, hallways, Learning About Architectural Landmarks, • Call PHLF to receive a 28-page booklet containing the Respecting Different Cultures and Ethnic windows, etc. Discuss if the doorways and hallways are, Exploring Pittsburgh, and Investigating Careers information you need to involve your students in an Traditions in fact, wide enough for those who use them! • Contact PHLF for a set of Landmark Survivors posters Architectural Design Challenge. Architectural Design • Arrange a bus tour with PHLF of ethnic neighborhoods • Walk around the outside of the school: draw the shape illustrating the lives of various landmarks: the Fort Pitt Challenges: Connecting Architecture and Urban and historic religious buildings in the Pittsburgh area. and footprint of the building; locate the parking lot and Block House, the Smithfield Street Bridge, the buildings Design to Classroom Learning includes a series of Have students write about the various ethnic traditions playground. Choose twelve words to describe your school. along Fort Pitt Boulevard, the Allegheny County worksheets based on the design process, model-making and note how they are similar to or different from their Develop a master vocabulary list and use the words in Courthouse, Clayton, and Station Square. spelling lessons. tips from students, and a photo album of models from own. One excellent church to visit is St. Nicholas Croatian • Create your own poster about an architectural landmark in design challenges sponsored by PHLF. (Appropriate for Church in Millvale: the hardships of immigration, World Getting to Know Your Family Heritage and your neighborhood. Which old buildings are worth saving? high school students, too.) War, and life in industrial America are shown in dramatic How could they be adapted to better serve the community? Neighborhood murals. Or, invite PHLF staff to lead your class in making a city or Exploring Pittsburgh • Have students bring in some old family photos or items neighborhood mural out of construction paper. • Visit the Nationality Rooms at the University of Pittsburgh. to create a museum of family mementos. Talk about the • Tour Pittsburgh’s most The 30 classrooms depict heritages of Africa, America, • Visit www.spotlightonmainstreet.com to learn about East importance of saving objects or artifacts: they help people impressive buildings Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Contact 412-624-6000; Carson Street on Pittsburgh’s South Side. The website learn about places or events long since passed. Read during a www.nationalityrooms.pitt.edu. includes audio clips, games and activities, student artwork, Grant Street Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox. and tips on planning community-based education programs. Walk. Discuss down- (You may borrow the book from PHLF.) town living and urban revi- • Explore Station Square and discover the story of the place • Have students find out how long their parents (or fami- talization during a tour of during a self-guided Scavenger Hunt. lies) have lived in the Pittsburgh area. Use a timeline to the Cultural District or HIGH SCHOOL show when family members came to the Pittsburgh area • Tour Pittsburgh by scheduling a Downtown Dragons, Market Square area. Cross and write down why they came. Bridges & River Shores, Strip District, or Transportation the rivers on our Bridges & Applying for a Scholarship walking tour. Ride the Monongahela or Duquesne inclines • Invite someone from your neighborhood (or from a local River Shores tour. Discover a • PHLF offers a Scholarship Program for college-bound up Mt. Washington for a view of the city from 400 feet museum) to come into the classroom and talk about the whole world within a few blocks students. Call 412-471-5808, ext. 536 for an application above. Back at school, have students make a paper-bag history of your neighborhood. during our Strip District Stroll. (Have your students or visit www.phlf.org to download an application. Click building of their favorite Pittsburgh landmark. on “Education” and “Landmarks Scholarship.” • Talk about the idea of change: how a neighborhood or read Macaroni Boy, by Katherine Ayres, and we’ll • Following your Downtown Dragons walking tour, city changes with the passage of time. Read (or involve connect the Strip Stroll to the book.) On the North retrace your steps by visiting our interactive website: Participating in Classes and Tours students in acting out) the story of The Little House by Side we’ve developed tours of Allegheny West, the www.phlf.org/dragons/. Virginia Lee Burton. (You may borrow the book from Mexican War Streets, and even of the Pittsburgh • Allegheny County school students interested in pursuing PHLF.) • Call PHLF to receive a Kennywood fact sheet, timeline, Children’s Museum and Allegheny Center. On the a career in architecture are encouraged to apply to the a set of photographic “detail” sheets, and a 16-page Architectural Apprenticeship Program offered by PHLF • Purchase a 12-page booklet from PHLF titled Your House South Side explore East Carson Street, a “Great through the Gifted and Talented Resource Center of the that helps students identify—and draw—the details of the booklet of worksheets. Kennywood is a National Historic American Main Street”; climb city steps; or tour the Allegheny Intermediate Unit. The class meets five days place where they live. Landmark. You can download these materials by visiting Mt. Washington neighborhood along Shiloh Street. www.kennywood.com. View the city from the 36th floor of the Cathedral each fall. • Ask PHLF’s education staff to organize a walking tour of Learning during a tour of Oakland; visit Carnegie • Participate in Urban Survival, a downtown walking tour and mapping exercise of the neighborhood near your • Schedule a “Poetry and Art” program with PHLF. Tour Mellon University to see Douglas Cooper’s amazing and discussion offered by PHLF addressing key principles school, if your school is located in an urban area Carnegie Mellon University with PHLF and sketch and in creating healthy, sustainable cities. or near a Main Street. We’ll “jump” the age of your compose poems about architectural details. Then, we’ll 200-foot mural of Pittsburgh; or tour “Little Italy” neighborhood with your students—ask us what we mean publish a booklet of your students’ poetry and art. in Bloomfield. Name the place you want to go and • Tour anywhere in the Pittsburgh region with PHLF and by that—and we’ll “jump” the age of your students. (Appropriate for middle and high school students, too.) we’ll tell you if we can take you there. learn about the work of community development groups, green-building concepts, and sustainable design. We can (They’ll strengthen their math skills in the process.) • Invite PHLF staff to present its career awareness program • Have students write about their tour experience or tour skyscrapers, historic landmarks, private homes, and challenge them to design a new building for a vacant to your students. In the award-winning program, “People more. Contact Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area Getting to Know Pittsburgh city lot. What kinds of buildings would they like to add Who Work to Improve Our Communities,” PHLF intro- for tours of the Carrie Blast Furnaces: 412-464-4020; • Borrow the Portable Pittsburgh Artifact Kit from PHLF to downtown Pittsburgh? What does our city need? duces students to 16 professions through colorful posters www.riversofsteel.com. for use in your classroom. and tools of the trade and provides information on your • Schedule a bus tour to “Woodville Plantation,” • Visit the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Heinz Architectural • Introduce the idea of Pittsburgh as a hometown, and school and community. (Appropriate for middle school the Neville House of c. 1775 in Collier Township. Center in Oakland: 412-622-3131; www.cmoa.org/ borrow six laminated views of Pittsburgh from PHLF The National Historic Landmark has survived centuries students, too.) heinzarchitecturalcenter/. showing how the city has changed during 250-plus years. of change and is the Pittsburgh area’s principal link with • Contact PHLF for a set of Downtown Landmarks: 18th-century life and the American Revolutionary War. www.woodvilleplantation.org. Math Facts. Students use facts about 10 landmarks to MIDDLE SCHOOL Fees are charged for all tours, for “Portable Pittsburgh,” for solve story problems, organize information on a graph • Tour Clayton, the home of industrialist Henry Clay “People Who Work to Improve Our Communities,” for Poerty and and timeline, and estimate and measure distances. Art and Building Activities and Architectural Frick, in Point Breeze. Contact 412-371-0600; Art programs, and for Architectural Design Challenges, among • Visit the Senator John Heinz History Center or Fort Pitt Design Challenges www.thefrickpittsburgh.org. The Frick Art & other programs. Books and printed materials may be borrowed Museum. For information on tours and programs, please Historical Center also includes a Car and Carriage at no charge if you or your school is a member of the Pittsburgh • Challenge students to design a classroom, cafeteria, or contact 412-454-6000; www.heinzhistorycenter.org. Museum, Art Museum, and more. History & Landmarks Foundation. Join today! school. Or they could build a geodesic dome, a bridge, • Visit the great glass-roofed Hall of Architecture in • Visit the Fort Pitt Block House of 1764, the oldest or a building; or create a Pittsburgh city mural, or a the Carnegie Museum of Art in Oakland. Contact Note: It’s best to book school tours and educational programs building in the city: 412-471-1764; www.fortpittblock- pop-up engineering design. house.com. The Daughters of the American Revolution 412-622-3131; www.cmoa.org. six months in advance. have owned the Block House since 1894. Introducing Landmarks-2015qxp.qxp_Intro Landmarks AP 6/20 7/14/15 2:22 PM Page 2 front cover back cover

PITTSBURGH HISTORY & Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation The educational resources offered by PHLF are high- LANDMARKS FOUNDATION Renewing Communities; Building Pride lighted in bold. Contact each organization listed here for www.phlf.org complete information regarding their programs. Is Your School a Member Founded in 1964 and recognized as one of the nation’s of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation? most innovative and effective nonprofit historic preservation organizations, the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) works to: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL If not, join and save Introducing • identify and save historically significant places; Becoming Aware of the Built Environment • 50% on all school tours • renew historic neighborhoods, towns, and urban areas; • Borrow the book Alphabet City, by Stephen • 50% on the Portable Pittsburgh Artifact Kit Landmarks • preserve historic farms and historic designed landscapes; and T. Johnson, from PHLF. Have your students point • 50% on the Career Awareness Program, “People Who • educate people about the Pittsburgh region’s rich out the alphabet letters hidden in the author’s Work to Improve Our Communities” architectural heritage. paintings of the built environment. • 10% on all publications • Challenge students to look for alphabet letters that PHLF works within a 250-mile radius of Pittsburgh, PA; Getting Real: Connecting Classroom are part of the fabric of buildings or the landscape it includes a nonprofit subsidiary, Landmarks Community Curricula to the Built Environment as they travel to and from school. Have each student And receive Capital Corporation (LCCC) and a for-profit subsidiary, • free copies (while supplies last) of Pittsburgh posters, Landmarks Development Corporation (LDC). draw a picture of the letter he/she finds; staple all postcards, and timelines In this brochure we outline a strategy for integrating the drawings together to create an alphabet book. • a free subscription to the annual PHLF News, featuring Each year PHLF staff and docents work with more than a study of the built environment into your school • Invite a PHLF staff member to come to your school our work in education and historic preservation, and to 10,000 people—teachers, students, adults, and visitors— to show poster-size images of Pittsburgh from the through tours, architectural design challenges, professional curricula, using some of the educational resources our monthly E-newsletter 18th century to the present. Discuss how cities grow development courses, poetry and art projects, and hands-on offered by the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks and change, just as people do. Discuss how cities— • free access to PHLF’s reference libraries of architectural workshops and presentations. Our educa tional programs help and people—have distinctive features that give them fulfill academic standards and engage students in hands-on, Foundation and others. and historical books, magazines, photographs, slides, character. Learn how the three goals of architecture interdisciplinary projects based on real-life problems. and transportation material relate to people, too. This progression of programs—from your school, to the • invitations to preservation seminars, lectures, • Construct a building out of people and use the The History Channel, National Trust for Historic concepts of family, neighborhood and city—corresponds and special events Preservation, Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies, body-building exercises from PHLF’s Introducing with the natural development and growing awareness of • free admission to all programs and workshops at Preservation Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Architecture booklet to help students feel the forces the Landmarks Preservation Resource Center in Commission, and Pittsburgh City Council are among those elementary and secondary school students. of compression and tension that affect built things. who have recognized PHLF for its innovative educational Wilkinsburg, PA Using the built environment to reinforce academic skills • Borrow a huge vinyl floor map (12 ft. x 16 ft.) programs promoting student achievement, pride, and character from PHLF. The map shows downtown Pittsburgh’s development and encour aging community involvement. and to fulfill standards helps make learning relevant to The annual membership fee for schools and school students and connects them to their community. streets and lots. Construct buildings and parks and nonprofits is $35.00. We welcome your comments and suggestions and look forward place them on the map.

to working with you. 227–47 Fort Pitt Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA Photo by Clyde Hare The annual membership fee for school districts Getting to Know Your School is $50.00. • Encourage students to get to know their school by Call Mary Lu at 412-471-5808 ext. 527 touring the building; counting the number of floors, for a membership application, or visit windows, doors, steps; sketching the unusual details www.phlf.org and click on “Membership.” and patterns; and researching the building’s history. Have students create a series of trivia announcements based on these school facts for daily broadcast over the public address system. • Use a stop watch to time how long it takes to get Acknowledgments from one place in the school to another. Draw maps PHLF thanks the Cindy & Murry Gerber Foundation recording the times. and McSwigan Family Foundation for contributing to its • Have students draw their classroom, or a detail in place-based educational programs that help young people Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation their classroom. How would they redesign the room? develop a sense of well-being and of community awareness Renewing Communities; Building Pride How would you, the teacher, redesign your classroom? as they explore and learn about the Pittsburgh region’s significant history, architecture, and unique character. 100 West Station Square Drive, Suite 450 Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1134 www.phlf.org 412-471-5808 ext. 537 or ext. 536 [email protected] or [email protected]