For Teachers
The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust offers a wide range of workshops 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
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.
Recommended for grades 4-8.
The Wright 3 Mystery 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.
NEW: Art Glass Done Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright designed artglass windows and doors for his Prairie style buildings. After a presentation on Wright’s artglass designs, children will be guided in creating their own art glass using tracing paper, colored pencils, construction paper and examples of Wright’s designs.
$90 per workshop, mileage additional.
Recommended for grades 2-5.
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.
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
Professional Development for Teachers
Learn architectural terms, read a building, ask the questions that get your students excited about architecture. Our professional development workshops use Frank Lloyd Wright’s work as the focus for learning and talking about architecture, history, and social change. We can provide half-day, full-day, or multi-day sessions. Participants can earn CPDUs. Call the Education Department at 312-994-4030 for fee structure.
Recommended for K-8 teachers.
Field Trips
Tours of the Home and Studio and Robie House are available as field trips. Click here for more information.