For Teachers

The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust offers a wide range of workships that can be integrated into the curriculum in your classroom, a feature unique in the Chicago area.

To schedule an in-school workshop, please contact the education department at 708-725-3828 or

Single-session In-School Workshops

Froebel Block Workshops

Create an interactive, hands-on learning session for your classroom using Froebel blocks, developed by Friedrich Froebel in the 1830’s and credited by Wright as having helped inspire his architectural style.

Customized workshops available.
$60-$90 per workshop, mileage additional.
Recommended for grades K-8

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Pentomino Workshops

The characters in The Wright 3 use 3-dimensional pentominos as their inspiration in solving the mystery.  Using these classic geometric puzzle pieces, students build, design, solve problems, and think critically.

Pentominos can be added to a classic Froebel block workshop or presented on their own.
$60-$90 per workshop, mileage additional.

The Wright 3 Virtual Tour

Bring the best-selling novel, The Wright 3, to your classroom.  Combine a book discussion with a virtual tour of the principal setting of The Wright 3.

$60 per one-hour presentation, mileage additional.
Combine with Froebel Blocks or pentominos - $90 plus mileage.

Extended In-school Workshops

Architecture in Education: Building in Community

Bring an awareness of architecture and design to your students while giving them a hands-on experience with creating a floorplan, building a structure, and planning a community.

Workshops include planning time with teachers, 6 - 8 classroom visits by a Preservation Trust staff member and a field trip to one of our museum sites.

$1200 per classroom.
Additional cost for off-site exhibit of projects.
Recommended for grades 3-8.

Focus on Japan

Explore the unique influence of Japanese prints and art on Wright’s design style.  Classrooms are loaned a collection of Japanese prints and artifacts for the duration of the program which are used to learn about Wright’s Japanese influences and how modern artists cultivate their influences and find inspiration. The program concludes with printmaking or architectural model-building.

Workshop includes 6-10 classroom sessions, a planning session with teachers, the loan of our Japanese collection, and the culminating art project.

$1200 per classroom.
Additional cost for off-site exhibit of projects.
Recommended for grades 4-8.

Little Builders

Little hands design with blocks, build box models, and create ideal communities in four one-hour sessions. Students discover the parts of a building in a neighborhood walk, learn about balance and symmetry through the Froebel blocks, create public and residential models, and work together to design a community.

$400 per classroom, mileage additional
Recommended for grades K-2

Web Resources

Architect Studio 3D

Virtual Restoration

Downloadable Materials