Stonemason - Fun Activities - Environments

Environments - STONEMASON

Design Your Headstone

Primary Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking
Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability
Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability

1. Stonemasons create memorial headstones for people who have died. You are to design your own headstone. Take inspiration from the following examples.

2. Decide on the type of stone you want for your headstone, the shape and the inscription. Draw these by hand or use TinkerCad (and a 3D Printer)

Designing your own Gargoyle!

Primary Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability

In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved or formed grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between. Architects often used multiple gargoyles on buildings to divide the flow of rainwater off the roof to minimize the potential damage from a rainstorm. A trough is cut in the back of the gargoyle and rainwater typically exits through the open mouth. Gargoyles are usually an elongated fantastic animal because the length of the gargoyle determines how far water is thrown from the wall. When Gothic flying buttresses were used, aqueducts were sometimes cut into the buttress to divert water over the aisle walls. (Source: Wikipedia)

1. Stonemasons design these to go onto buildings. You are to design your own gargoyle!

What creature will you design?

Will it have human like qualities or a particular animal? Why?

Remember you have to design the spout as well. How long will your gargoyle be?

2. After designing on paper, create your Gargoyle as a 3D image using TinkerCad

3. In groups of 4 - 5 students, share your gargoyle and explain the answers to the questions above.

The Stonemason's Yard by Canaletto

Middle Secondary Teacher

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Teacher - Primary
The National Gallery, UK, has a list of activities around this painting for Primary Students. Click here to view.

1. An Italian Painter, Canaletto (1697 - 1768) painted "The Stonemason's Yard" in 1726 and it is held in UK National Gallery.

2. You are to investigate Canaletto and his paintings - particularly The Stonemason's Yard - and write a critique of this work by using Wordle. Use the following websites to investigate: