Zaha Hadid Lesson Plan: Individuals’ Contributions and Identities
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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic Zaha Hadid, and supports the standard of relating artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.
Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Display an image of a building designed by Zaha Hadid, like this one of the Heydar Aliyev Center in Azerbaijan:
Ask students:
- What do you notice about this building?
- What does it make you feel or think about?
Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE
- Read the description on the Zaha Hadid topic page.
- Play the Movie, pausing to check for understanding.
Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS
Assign the Zaha Hadid Challenge and Quiz, prompting students to apply essential literacy skills while demonstrating what they learned about this topic.
Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND
Students express what they learned about Zaha Hadid while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student needs.
- Make-a-Movie: Produce a talk-show style interview with Zaha Hadid discussing key moments in her career.
- Make-a-Map: Create a concept map identifying Hadid’s influences, and how she interpreted them in her architectural designs.
- Creative Coding: Code a museum with artifacts that represent Hadid’s experiences and achievements.
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Sortify: World Changing Women: Challenge players to categorize influential women based on their contributions and more.
Teacher Support Resources:
- Pause Point Overview: Video tutorial showing how Pause Points actively engage students to stop, think, and express ideas.
- Learning Activities Modifications: Strategies to meet ELL and other instructional and student needs.
- Learning Activities Support: Resources for best practices using BrainPOP.
