Projects
Design a bedroom project
Lesson 1 - Design a floor plan for your room
Draw to scale on either paper or on computer
Add in a window and door
Lesson 2 - Draw the walls to scale including the door and window
Lesson 3 - Calculate the area of your floor
Decide on a floor covering (carpet, laminate ...) using the ORNO catalogue
Calculate the cost of your floor
Lesson 4 - Calculate the area of your walls
Decide on wallpaper/paint/mural for each wall using the ORNO catalogue
Calculate the cost of the walls
Lesson 5 - Pick out your furniture using the ORNO catalogue
Keep track of your budget!
Lesson 6 - Pick out your decor using the ORNO catalogue
Keep track of your budget!
Topics covered:
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Area of rectangles
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Compound area
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Scale drawing
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Calculations with money
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Percentage decrease
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Fractions of amount
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Multi buy offers
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Decimal place value
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Metric conversions (very basic!)
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Budgeting
A big thank you to @drhaynes74 who has sent me these fabulous photos of his son Henry's work on this project.
Henry (Year 8) has made a 3D model of the bedroom he has designed which is a brilliant idea of how you could extend this project.
