My ideal learning environment

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My ideal learning environment

• A Year 7 Project

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The Task

• Working as a member of an architectural team you
  are
• competing against other companies to win the
  contract to
• design a state-of-the-art teaching area on a
  given site.
• The teaching area must accommodate 100 students
  and
• must fit within the area shown on your copy of
  the site
• area.

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Consider

• What would school have to be like to make you
  want to spend a lot of time there?
• How many students would you put into one learning
  space at a time?
• What subjects are going to be taught in your new
  classroom?

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Consider

• How much space would be needed to accommodate the
  technology and the types of learning activities
  you envision?
• How much of the site are you willing to give up
  for parking?.. athletic fields? .. roads? (are
  there other options worth considering?)

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Decide

• How many learning spaces youll need to
  accommodate 100 students
• Whether to stack the learning spaces, fan them,
  scatter them, cluster them, etc.
• How to connect all the spaces (walkways on the
  ground, above ground, underground?)

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Drawing a Plan
Each square 1m
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Drawing a Plan
Each square 1m
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Drawing a Plan
Each square 1m
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Drawing a Plan
Area 47m2
Area 40m2
Area 20m2
Area 30m2
Each square 1m
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Calculating the Costs
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Calculating the Costs
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Calculating the Costs
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Drawing a Plan
To calculate the area of the wall we need to
first find its length.
Each square 1m
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Drawing a Plan
Length 104317544163327 60m
Each square 1m
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Calculating the area of the wall

• The Wall is 60m long.
• If we want the wall to be 3m high(which is the
  height of your classrooms)
• Then the area of the wall is
• 60 x 3 180m2.

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Calculating the Costs
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You must

• Draw a scale drawing of your teaching block
• Draw a scale drawing of one of the classrooms in
  more detail
• Complete the sheet showing the costs of your
  building
• Produce drawings to show what the teaching block
  will look like from different views
• Be prepared to explain your design and the
  reasons to your teacher

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Be creative
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Be creative
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Be creative
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Be creative
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Be creative
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Key Points

• The teaching area must accommodate 100 students
  and
• must fit within the area shown on your copy of
  the site
• area.
• There is not a price limit but you must be able
  to explain
• your decisions.
• You will be required to give a short presentation
  during the
• last 50 minutes of the day and the best group
  will go
• through to the final which will be held in the
  hall at
• 2.50pm.

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Marking Criteria

• Max Mark
• How well did you work as a group 10
• How original and well thought out were your
  ideas 10
• How neat and well laid out was your work 10
• Were your calculations clear and accurate 10
• How good was the final presentation 10
• Judges decision is final!
• The top group from each classroom will go
• through to the final.