PRE-ACTIVITY ASSESSMENT / DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
- What are climate and weather, and how are they different from each
other?
- Do we have the same climate across the country and the year?
- What is the need for shelter?
- What are the different shapes you observe in modern architecture?
Describe the trend of buildings across human history.
- What connection does the home have with climate?
- What is a geodesic dome?
- What are the basic shapes used in most geodesic domes?
- Can you think of some examples of geodesic domes that you have seen or
used before?
(Teacher can make the students pass a football among themselves and pick
a student to answer the question and later connect the concepts of the
structure of the football with fullerene and fuller’s dome)