Webquest



Introduction -Everyone lives in some sort of house and might even have a chance to buy one someday, however not everyone has the privilege of getting to build one. In our geometry class we have been learning the basics of geometry in that we can identify different areas, angles, perimeters etc. of numerous shapes and objects. However now we will be able to use the knowledge we have amounted into a real world situation in which we will also have a little fun along the way!

Task You are part of an architectural firm and a billionaire comes to your team and wants to donate a lot and half a million dollars to be given to a lucky family who is in need (that he has already chosen). Your task at hand is to design a house for the family using the program SketchUp. He has also given this letter to numerous other firms and whoever designs the best house in his opinion he is giving a hefty donation of 3 hundred thousand dollars to that firm:

Dear Architectural Firm,

The family consists of a wife, husband, two sons (one is 14, one is 8) and a daughter (10). It is your job to use their gender and ages along with family to make a house that will benefit the family in many ways. -Label the area of each room, each floor (depending how many you would like to have) and the total square footage is not to exceed 3000. -I have a personal contracter who will be building the house for me. It costs him $80 per square foot of finished housing and $60 per square foot of unifinished housing(garage). It is up to you to calculate how much the buidling will cost by itself and then fill it with things you feel are important for a house to start with. I am looking for efficient choices and materials with reasoning behind why you chose the things you did. -Be creative and fill every room with things you feel appropriate. -Use the internet to give an approximation of how much the total cost will be and where you found items you put in the house. -Leave nothing unaccounted for, when determining the total price(except the land, I’m donating that) -Remember I’m not looking for the cheapest house or the most expensive house, just the one that I feel fits the family the best and makes the most out of what they design.



Process Every group will have 4 members and each member will have a specific job title. One of the titles is **Chief Engineer**. Your job is to come up with an overall idea of what the house will look like, how big it will be etc. You should be pretty familiar with Sketch Up because you will be doing a lot of the drawing on the program. Your **Construction Worker** will help you along the way by informing you the amount of money your team is looking at based on your ideas/materials for the house. The **Mathematician** will help labeling the areas of each room, angles, and some materials. There will be one **Interior Decorator** that will be the person to fill the house with items in an economical and stylish way. Every member is to work together to form the house and everything that it entails. No one can work by themselves and you all need each others cooperation to come up with an organized and successful plan. You are all each others boss and need to work together to beat out the rest of the class and win the extra credit points. When you are done you should include:

-At least one animation demonstrating what your house looks like -A 3-fold Brochure listing the things you decided to include in the house, and more importantly your overal expenses. -A web created including all the items in the house and what they costed using Inspiration Mindmap -An Outline of the same information for easier reading

Evaluation -I as the teacher will be the rich millionaire and will check over the house that you decide to make in great detail. I should come up with about the same areas, amount of money, angles as you and if I don’t your grade will suffer accordingly. I will give you a rubric so you know specifically what I will be looking for.

Conclusion -If I chose your firms design you will automatically receive 20 extra credit points regardless what your original grade was. You will be competing against other firms (the rest of the class) so do not share any information that could give you an advantage to your friends. This plan will help you use problem solving skills and specific geometry skills to beat out your classmates and receive a good grade. You have the entire internet as a searching tool and I can only hope you utilize it to your advantage. I want a detailed description of all materials and sites at which you found your rates for materials etc.

Click here to see the standards that this project is addressing. Click here to see suggested references. Click here to see an example of this webquest and other things that go with it. (Created by my partner, Jordan Mattingly)