The Alden B. Dow Home and Studio is always willing to tailor an educational
tour for your class. From fourth grade through college, many classes
studying interior design, art history, history, architecture, math, graphic
design and photography have toured the structure. Students write papers and
reports as class projects, others observe and compare the Home and Studio to
other forms of architectural, structural and design philosophies; and some
visit just for fun or maybe for a class reward.
Seventh Grade Math Students - Haslett, Michigan
Every year the Alden B. Dow Home and Studio entertains roughly 150 seventh
grade math students from Haslett Middle School. The group divides into three
groups of 50, one group begins at the Home and Studio, one at the Midland
Center for the Arts and one at the Herbert H. Dow Museum, spending about an
hour and a half at each location; then they rotate during the day - spending
the whole day learning more about Midland.
It is great fun to expose the children to applied mathematics and geometry
through a tour of the Home and Studio. To watch angles and shapes come alive
to the students as they tour the building can be quite inspiring and fun to
the children, the teachers and the guides as well.
Eighth Grade Students - Bridgeport / Spaulding Schools
On
April 5, 2000, these students from Bridgeport, Michigan decided to visit the
Alden B. Dow Home and Studio as a class reward field trip. The photo below
was taken on the blocks outside the Alden B. Dow Studio.
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