Floor Plans

In this engineering learning exercise, 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 home and...

Students participate in a discussion about the basics of house design including the influence of site, materials, function, form and style. They explore these concepts by creating a floor plan and conceptual drawing of a house.

Students analyze a piece of artwork to draw conclusions about life in Victorian Britain. In this British history lesson plan, students use a painting to determine who could have lived in the house, why the house was built in its...

Young scholars 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...

Students utilize the elements and principles of design to arrange and decorate rooms, calculating the cost of fabric, wallpaper, paint, and carpet. They evaluate the floor plans in their role-play as interior designers.

Students conceptualize three dimensional space relationships from a two dimensional architectural sketch. They draw architectural sketches, creating unique symbols to represent various items on their individual sketches. Students apply...

Seventh graders draw to scale a furnished single story home floor plan and draw an elevation view of one section of one room on graph paper, on good paper and on the computer. Students compute computer calculator work, word processing...

Seventh graders design possible dream house layouts. For this architecture lesson, 7th graders use sketch paper and a ruler to develop several rough sketches of a dream house. Students discuss how to use a scale for the floor plan.

Students explore the basics of house design and compare examples of architecture from different times and places. The influence of site, materials, function, form and style are probed as their own floor plans are created.

Students discuss the changes we face and what kind of future house designs students can imagine. They create a floor plan, make an architectural drawing, and write a short description about their future house.