Design Your Dream Room | LES
In this learning and evaluation situation, secondary III students will simulate some of the steps involved in a bedroom renovation project. Working within the defined constraints, students will choose and cut out furniture and accessories for their room, then arrange and glue them on a floor plan. This floor plan will then be used as a jumping-off point for students to acquire new knowledge relating to scales and dimensioning. At the end of the LES, each student will hand in their Student Booklet and a dimensioned floor plan. The assessment can be summative or formative at the teacher’s discretion.
Activity Details
Learning Objectives
The following objectives are addressed during the LES.
* Objectives marked with an asterisk may have been covered in Sec. I or Sec. II.
Scales
- Associating scales with their use (actual-size representation, reduction or enlargement of an object)
- Choosing a simple scale for a drawing
- Taking the scale into account when interpreting drawings
Dimensioning
- Describing the main dimensioning rules
- Interpreting technical drawings, including the dimensions
Using Scales
- Associating real measurements with each of the dimensions in a drawing*
- Reducing or multiplying the dimensions of a technical object based on the scale*
- Dimensioning a technical drawing in accordance with the main dimensioning rules
Duration
Approximately 2 hours OR two 60-minute periods.
Materials
- 1 copy of the Student Booklet for each student
- 1 copy of the Floor Plan Template for each student (print on 11 x 17 paper)
- 1 copy of Appendix 1: Dream Room Furniture and Accessories List for each student (print single-sided on 8 1⁄2 x 11 paper)
- 1 copy of the Rubric for each student
- 1 pair of scissors for each student
- 1 glue stick for each student
- 1 ruler (30 cm) for each student or 1 triangular scale ruler with a 1:20 scale
