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    The Architecture Handbook

    In "The Architecture Handbook," hands-on activities help students learn the fundamentals of both architectural design and technical drawing.

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    Build-It Design Challenges

    Use your imagination and work through the Design Process to solve a problem and create your own unique construction, then share your results!

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    Hands-On Activities

    Explore architecture and the built environment using all of your senses through hands-on activities about science, math, art, reading and writing, and social studies, using things you can find around the house (Ages 5-12)

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    Ken Resource for Staging

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    Graphic Novel

    No Small Plans

    No Small Plans is a graphic novel that follows the neighborhood adventures of teens in Chicago's past, present and future as they wrestle with designing the city they want.

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