LESSON PLAN

SIMULATED TEACHING

Apoorva Singh
M.ARCH PEDAGOGY | 1ST SEM
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 LESSON PLAN
Name: Apoorva Singh

Year: 2nd Year Date: 30th November’17

Subject: History of Architecture Period: 2nd

Topic: Greek Architecture, orders, planning, Duration: 45 mins

Sub Topic: Greek City Planning

1) OBJECTIVES-
a) GENERAL-
(i) To make the students understand about classical architecture and how it flourished
(ii) To develop the knowledge of perceptual learning in the students.
(iii) To garner the knowledge
b) SPECIFIC-
i) UNDERSTANDING- To understand architecture as evolving within specific cultural contexts including aspects of
politics, society, religion and climate.
ii) KNOWLEDGE- To gain knowledge of the development of architectural form with reference to technology, style
and character as compared to prehistoric world and in Ancient Greece and city planning.
iii) APPLICATION- Student will able to

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 1. Predict the features of Greek planning.
2. Reason out the difference between the other civilizations

iv) SKILLS- Student will able to

1. Analyse the different types of deigning strategies taken up by Greek.
2. Identify optical illusions in any other buildings.
3. Learn the ideologies of Greeks and might apply in their concept evolution.

2) PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE- Students are expected to know about Greek Civilization before beginning the lecture today.

3) TEACHING AIDS- chalk/duster, projector, presentations, visuals, graphics

4) TESTING OF PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE-

i) How Greek civilizations have flourished?

ii) What do you understand by the term Crete?

iii) What is an acropolis?

iv) What are the various parts of Greek City?

v) What was main reason behind the settlement of Greek Civilisation?

5) ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE TOPIC- ANICIENT GREECE CITY PLANNING

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6) INTRODUCTION- Beginning the lecture with a quick recap of last lecture, explaining the main parts of a Greek City,
then explaining the orders of Greek followed by the Greek planning and features in detail.
7) FORMAT-
CONTENT
Greek city planning and
Orders in Greek architecture –
Doric, Ionic and Corinthian
Greek character- Greek polis
and democracy
Public Buildings: Agora, stoas,
theaters, bouletrion and stadias
– Greek temple: evolution and
classification- Parthenon and
Erecthion
Correction of Optical illusions
in the buildings
ACTIVITIES BLACK BOARD WORK
TEACHERS PUPIL’S
Pictorial Would ask them to Ratio and proportion of the
representation. prepare sketches and orders, their use in various
PPT, videos some tutorial on the buildings
Differentiate between basis of their learning
all the orders
Meaning of each and Class exercise asking Certain sketches with
every term used in the students about pictorial representation, and
Greek civilisation. types of temples and available visual aids.
Understanding the parts of a temple and
meaning of Acropolis, part of a Greek
stoa, agora and their building in elevation
purpose at that time.
Via sketches, ppt.
Diagrams
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 Teaching Point Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity Projector
Greek City Planning and 3D walkthrough, of how Students will Visuals, presentation, Sketches, drawings
Design the tepmples of Greeks, understand the
and how cropolis became various parts of the
what it is known Greek City: The
Agora , The Stoa,
The Acropolis.

Greek Orders By showing short video Student will Through such sketches, and graphics
on Greek orders. understand the Doric
Orders are the type of difference of ratio
coloumns used in various and proportion of
buildings depending orders of Greeks, by
upon their purpose. sketches, which
would be a tutorial
for them.

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Temple Typology Types of temple in Greek, Students will These sketches would show the difference
depending upon their understand the between the 6
placement of columns. difference between, types of
In antis, Prostyle, temples.
Anphi- prostyle,
Peripteral, Dipteral,
Monopteral.

Acropolis of Athens The meaning of Students need to be Graphics and a video to showcase the
Acropolis, the temple of attentive enough so whole acropolis
Athena, The Temple of as to appear for a
Poisedon, Propylea. small exercise:
The Acropolis in Athens To identify the
was rebuilt in about 450 different parts of an
BC. Acropolis.

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The Propylae Students will know
about the entrance gate,
which was used to reach
the acropolis.
To enter people had to
get through the center
section of the propylaea

The Pathenon, Temple of Student will know it was

Athena was designed by Ictinus
and Callicrates in 447
BC, dedicated to Goddess
Athena
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 The Parthenon is the
most perfect Doric
temple ever built.

Finding for idealism Students will know how

Greeks aimed at creating
visually perfect
buildings.
To correct optical
distortions they used
several resources:

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The Erectheon, Temple of The erechtheum was
Posedion and Athena named after Erechtheus,
the legendary king of
Athens, whose mother
was the goddess of the
earth and whose father
was the fire god.

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7. RECAPITULATION- ppt, tutorials and assignments prepared for sessional, documentaries online.
Reading is must from Banister Fletcher, for easy reach download pdf of Comparative Method of Banister Fletcher
from link given below
https://ia801409.us.archive.org/25/items/historyofarchite00fletuoft/historyofarchite00fletuoft.pdf

8. EVAULATION-
a. By giving them assignments and after lecture tutorials, based on the same day topic covered.
b. By taking a feedback of the lecture taken the same day in a form of summary from students
c. Asking students to prepare a handout stating what all they understood from today’s lecture with sketches.
d. By asking them to documents case examples in contemporary times which follows the classical architecture
around them in the form of photographs, sketches and note.
ASSIGNMENT 1-
o Write a tutorial depicting the differences between the orders of Greek with illustrations and sketches.
ASSIGNMENT 2-
o Dividing in the groups of 3, work on the topics given below with sketches and submit the assignment-
 Group 1- Greek city planning, evolution and architectural features.
 Group 2- Greek city- city of Athens
 Group 3- Agora of Athens
 Group 4- Acropolis of Athens

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  Group 5- City of Delphi
 Group 6- Optical illusions corrected by the Greek with sketches.
ASSIGNMENT 3-
o Draw the plan of the Parthenon and label all the important parts of the temple in proper scale and
proportion, with elevation and label Architrave, Entablature, Styloblate, Pediment, Conice, Naos,
Opisthodomas. Write a short note on all the elements and parts of the Parthenon. With blow up
sketches.

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