Designing the Break Room

Today we will be designing the build of our break room, as this includes Maths concepts, we are doing this in our Maths class!

Things to consider:

How long should it be?
How tall should it be?
How wide should it be?
What shape should it be?
How big should the ‘decontamination’ area be? Should it have walls?
What materials will we use and what are their dimensions?

Key things to learn before going ahead:

Taking accurate measurements
Drawing to scale- what is this and how do we do it?
Lines (perpendicular and parallel) and when to use in building?
Drawing angles accurately

Once you have drawn your plan to scale, you will need to label it and write a list of all materials we need to collect/purchase in addition to those available.

Your task will be:

To create a to scale version of your design of the structure of break room. You will need to draft this, plan it, ensure accuracy of the scale and then create! This could be hand drawn, created in CAD, build as a scale model etc. You will then need to create a ‘shopping list’.

Then next week:

Next Tuesday we will begin to build the structure.
On Thursday we will then calculate the amount of cladding we will need (internal and external) to be added to our build in week 4.

Right now: lets roughly design it as a class

Taking Measurements

All measurements in millimetres- what is this? How do we write it?

Why is accuracy important?

How do you use a tape measure?

Drawing to scale

What is this?
Why do we do this?
How do we do this?
Choosing a scale and identifying it

Lines

What are parallel lines?
What is the relationship between the lines?
Why is this important?
Why is this relevant to our break room and how would you use parallel lines?
What are Perpendicular lines?
What is the relationship between the lines?
Why is this important?
Why is this relevant to our break room and how would you use perpendicular lines?