Design a Room Webquest
Introduction
Many students dream of designing their ideal bedroom or game room. In this exercise, students will be required to limit the size as a specific volume. They must design the floor plan, including furniture placement, using Inspiration. There are required to select the following: floor covering, paint for walls and ceiling and an air-conditioning and heating unit appropriate for the room’s volume. Students use the Web to research these items and enter the values they find into a spreadsheet, maintaining a running total of expenditures. They present their rooms to the class using multimedia software.
Process
- Measure
and calculate the area of the computer lab in meters.
- Based
on the knowledge of measurement in meters, use an Excel spreadsheet to
record dimensions of your dream room.
Limit the volume to 75 meters.
(e.g. length + width + height = 75
meters)
- Select
the following: floor covering,
paint for walls and ceiling and an air-conditioning and heating unit
appropriate for the room’s volume and record it in the Excel spreadsheet.
- Use
Inspiration to draw your floor plan and add symbols to represent the
furniture.
- Use
Word to type a description of your room.
- Use
Power point to create a presentation of your room.
Resources
www.ies.co.jp/math/java/ratioAB/ratioAB.html
www.bestbuy.com
www.ikea.com
How to calculate Heat pump size required.
“In layman's terms 1 ton of cooling capacity is
equal to 12,000BTU of cooling capacity and 600
square feet of residential living space requires 1 ton of cooling capacity
based on adequate
insulation, 8' ceiling height and tight windows and doors.
To calculate your requirement using this method
get the total square footage of living space and
divide that number by 600. The answer is the number in tons of air conditioning
capacity required.
To convert tonnage to BTU's simply multiply by 12,000.”
Anyone wishing to use this
material can distribute it freely without change.
Copyright © 1999 Cristal Enterprises.
The above information is from the website: http://www.oxyfilters.com/acman.html
Assessment
Ability to measure metric lengths (expressed
in meters and decimals, e.g. 5.25 meters)
Ability to calculate area and volumes in
square meters and cubic meters
Ability to calculate percentages
Ability to multiply accurately and add decimal
values
Ability to create floor plans to scale
Ability to communicate plans using multimedia
Ability to communicate plans in writing using
a word processor
Ability to select an appropriate air
conditioner based on room volume
This lesson was
adapted from NETS-S