Unit of Inquiry homework! Due Tue 23/03

Hi everyone!

I had some troubles posting the latest UoI homework so Miss D and I have decided that this homework will only be due on Tuesday, 23rd of March!

This homework comes in TWO parts! Each part should take you about 20 mins, no more...

1) The first part of the homework is to draw a floor plan of your bedroom at home!

A floor plan is a drawing that shows a room as seen from above. Everything in a floor plan appears flat. Architects use floor plans to show what a room or building will look like. A floor plan is the way a three-dimensional object, such as a house or a room, is represented on a flat piece of paper. It is usually drawn to scale, meaning while objects are drawn smaller than they are in real life, they are still the same size in relation to each other. But don't worry - we are NOT asking you to do it to scale!

Floor plans include not only the rooms that will be included in the new stucture, but other important details such as where the windows, doors, pipes and places for the electricity will have to be built.

So when you are drawing the floor plan of your bedroom you need to include the following things:

1. the door
2. the windows
3. any electrical sockets
4. your bed
5. any other furniture

Make sure you choose a symbol to use for each item and make a key.

2) The second part of the homework is to draw a floor plan of the bedroom you WISH YOU HAD!

Make sure, once again, to include:

1. the door
2. the windows
3. any electrical sockets
4. your bed
5. any other furniture or items you wish you had in your bedroom

This room can be any shape you like. The walls do not have to be at right angles to each other! Please include a text description on a separate of the materials you would use to build your dream bedroom.

So - we are expecting 4 sheets of A4 paper.

1) An A4 floor plan of your current bedroom, in black and white (squared paper) titled - 'My bedroom'.
2) An A4 floor plan of you DREAM bedroom in black and white (squared paper) titled 'My Dream Bedroom'.
3) A piece of text or table showing what materials you would use to build different parts of the room (lined paper)
4) The key - which shows us what all your symbols on your floor plans mean. Please use the same symbols for both floor plans. We understand that your 'dream' bedroom might have some extra symbols that your current bedroom does not have ; )

      eg. walls - I would use bricks and mortar to build the walls and
                      then smooth them over with cement and paint them
                      blue
            floor - I would multi-coloured tiles for the floor

Before you start your homework google some floor plans and see how they are 'normally drawn'. Try draw your in a similar way using common symbols for doors/windows.

Remember - we are just asking you to do your bedroom NOT your whole house! Please do not colour them in. Squared paper will be sent home by the school.

Good Luck!

Miss Lamb

ps. Take a look at the websites below to see some very cool, weird and BIZARRE architecture...

Bizarrchitecture

Most unique buildings of the world

When I was in Prague I was lucky enough to see the 'Dancing House'. It was AMAZING!