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The Tree House and the Birdwatching Platform: Pause, House, Sings and Wings

Brazilian House Museum Educators and EMEI Dona Leopoldina School

NAME OF THE SCHOOL, MUSEUM, ASSOCIATION:

EMEI Dona Leopoldina early education School.

 

CITY:

São Paulo.

 

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

Brasil.

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PUBLIC SPACE WHERE THE PROJECT WAS DEVELOPED:

Playground.

 

CATEGORY OF PROJECT:

Workshops of school hours.

 

AGE AND NUMBER OF CHILDREN:

4-5 years old.

200 participants.

 

PERIOD OF THE PROJECT:

De noviembre de 2016 a noviembre de 2017.

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT:

To enhance children´s and adult´s repertoire about the concept of house; to elaborate and concretize a participative architecture project inside of an early childhood public school; to collectively create a tree house that incorporate some elements of the Brazilian house, the children´s thought and technical knowledges about architecture.

 

BUDGET:

Around 5.000,00 USD for the material. The hand-labor was donated.

Transcriptions

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0.6:

Sofia: This is my school. It´s name is EMEI Dona Leopoldina. It has a tree house. Let´s go?

 

0.18:

Sofia: Aouch, i´m dizzy!

 

0.31:

 Heitor, the doorman: Welcome to the tree house, take your cards so you can get in.

Sofia: Thank you

 

0.39:

Sofia: This is to observe the tree house, that´s why we need this (Binocular).

 

0.38:

 Heitor, the doorman: You can go up.

Sofia: Let´s come in!

 

0.52:

 Sofia: How many beautiful birds!

 

0.55:

Sofia: Look who´s sleeping! Let´s wake him up. Aaahaahh (sound of doorbell)

 

Giggles

 

1.04:

Heitor, the doorman: He knows how to built a tree house. You can tell them.

 

1.10:

Pedro: Look, the tree house was a dream of the children because they wanted a tree house. They wanted a lot a tree house, and then they started to project it, and then they have done the tree house. Hey, Sofia!

 

1.27:

Sofia: It was a very special day, with this (the binocular) we can see all the birds!

 

1.31:

Pedro: When we... One of the houses have a roof so that it won´t rain on it, the other doesn´t have a roof so that we can see the birds.

 

1.44:

Pedro: A tree house is something that can be on top of a tree, or could be a house that pass a tree through it.

Proyecto educativo

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