Lesson Plans

Push the boundaries of architecture by creating an innovative design and building a 3-D model to scale.

Examine the budget for a 1907 Wright home, convert the costs into today’s currency, and create new budgets for your own home designs.

Students sketch local architecture and recreate brick bonds using Legos.

Research and explore how Frank Lloyd Wright’s innovative materials and technologies “broke the box” of traditional architecture.

Explore the unique characteristics of the Prairie style while creating a large-scale cardboard model.

Draw inspiration from biomimicry and organic design to design and build architectural sculptures.

Learn about illustrator and artist Maginel Wright Barney, the younger sister of Frank Lloyd Wright, and use her art as inspiration for your own Felt Collage or Yarn Art.

Study Wright’s art glass designs, then employ the medium of printmaking to create a Wright-inspired art glass print.

Learn how abstraction is expressed by different artists and designers, create a sequence of drawings that get progressively more abstract, and turn the final sketch into a paper collage.

Explore the idea of abstract art in this matching game lesson. Using Frank Lloyd Wright’s work as a springboard, work together to match abstracted works of art to their real-life inspirations.

Transform classroom windows and walls into colorful displays of Wright inspired art glass designs.

Explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s interest in geometry and nature to collaboratively create Wright-inspired flower bouquets.