Beyond Benign
The Final Floor
Finally, the final floor plan. The 11th installment of a 15-part series looks at floor plans for houses. Scholars try their hand at creating a scale drawing for the floor plan of their dream houses.
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Bedroom Floor Plan
Students identify and compare the characteristics of floor plans and zoning to family activities and needs. They draw an accurate floor plan--either existing or a work in progress to scale. Then, students roughly sketch their bedroom...
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Reading a Floor Plan
In this reading a floor plan worksheet, 5th graders use the floor plan, the scale or 1/8 in. = 1 ft. and an inch ruler to answer 6 questions.
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Best Design of a Floor Plan
Students participate in this continuation of the Design Your Space lesson. Using their completed classroom floor plans, students discuss the pros and cons of each floor plan and select the plan which has the best use of space and...
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Engineer Webelos Activity Workbook
In this engineering instructional activity, students speak with an engineer, surveyor, or architect in their area about the various occupations in engineering and create a list that explains each. They also draw a floor plan of their...
Radford University
Let’s Go Floor Shopping!
Pupils calculate the area of two rooms to re-floor. They research Lowe's and Home Depot to find the cost for different floor coverings. Given different promotions for the stores, individuals determine where to purchase the flooring based...
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Shapes, Pictures and Floor Plans
In this shapes and pictures activity, learners write the opposites of eight pairs of words, color a classroom floor plan and draw pictures and shapes on four grids. Students check their answers online as they go.
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Area and Perimeter Floor Plan
Using Google SketchUp, learners draw a model of their bedroom. They begin by measuring the dimensions of their bedroom, inputting this information into the software program, and calculating perimeter and area. This is an interesting and...
EngageNY
An Exercise in Creating a Scale Drawing
Design your dream classroom. The lesson plan contains an exercise to have teams create a scale drawing of their dream classroom. Pairs take the measurements of their classroom and furniture and create a scale factor for them. To finish...
Radford University
How to Build a Happy Home
Build a complete house in just a few days. Learners create floor, roof, deck, and landscape plans for a two-story house. Scholars then use their knowledge of area formulas, trigonometric ratios, and the Pythagorean Theorem to determine...
Radford University
Remodeling a Home
Get new flooring for as cheap as possible. Given a floor plan of a house, pupils determine the area of each room and the amount of necessary flooring. They then make selections for the flooring in every space, taking a budget into...
Radford University
Beach House
What's the best way to make a beach house affordable? Given constraints on the number of rooms and the cost of flooring, learners design dream beach houses. They draw floor plans and calculate the areas using different units.
Beyond Benign
Scale the Wall
How can you fit an entire school on one sheet of paper? You use scale! Scholars measure rooms in the school and, using the correct scale, design a floor plan that includes area calculations with their data.
Beyond Benign
Drafting Bubbles
Let's start designing a house. Future architects create floor plans for a house given certain constraints. They calculate the area of each room in the house. This is the 11th lesson in a 15-part unit.
Mathematics Assessment Project
Security Camera
Only you can prevent shoplifting. Class members use a given floor plan to investigate the placement of a security camera. They must incorporate knowledge of area and percents to complete the task.
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The Ultimate Classroom: Presentations
Students create a classroom floor plan. For this ultimate classroom lesson, students create a floor plan to scale, determine a materials list with cost, and write a summary of their results. They create a PowerPoint presentation and...
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Tile My Bathroom Floor
Seventh graders create a bathroom floor plan using measurement math. In this measurement lesson, 7th graders use measurement, proportionality, estimation, and area to design a floor plan. Students design floor tiles using centimeter...
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Supermarket Floor Plan
In this alphabetical ordering activity worksheet, students alphabetize stock in a new store and explore how to arrange the new stock by enlarging the floor plans for the new supermarket.
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Clubhouse Design
Fifth graders design a blueprint and floor plan for a one-story clubhouse. In this architectural design lesson plan, 5th graders view several floor plans and blueprints on the Internet then design a one-story clubhouse that includes...
Discovery Education
Architects in Action
Hands-on and real-world applications are great ways to teach mathematical concepts. Creative thinkers examine how ratios are used to create scale models of buildings and structures. They practice working with ratios by looking at a map...
Illustrative Mathematics
Floor Plan
A multi-step problem has learners finding the actual area based on a scale drawing and then converting units at the end. Two different solution choices are listed depending on the preference on which step to start first. Both methods can...
Beyond Benign
Hit the Deck: Area and Perimeter Review
Designing a deck sure demands a lot of math. Future engineers and architects learn about the areas and perimeters of squares, rectangles, triangles, and composite figures. They apply their new knowledge to design a deck with a specified...
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House Floor Plans
Sixth graders investigate the mathematical concept of area. They are given a certain square footage and asked to draw the initial floorplan for a house. Students use computers to create the plan. To finish the drawing it must include the...
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Design Your Space
Students evaluate the acceptable use of classroom space. The class participated in a brief lecture and discuss of floor plans and how they are used in architecture. Using graph paper, they create a scale drawing of the classroom...
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