What does your classroom look like?
Subject: Design and Technology
Year: 2
Strand: Process and Production
Sub-Strands: Designing
Content Descriptor:
ACTDEP006 – Generate, develop and record design ideas through describing, drawing and modelling
ACTDEP007 – Use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions
Cross-Curriculum Priorities and General Capabilities:
–Sustainability
-Numeracy
–Critical and Creative thinking
-Information and communication technology (ICT) capability
Links to Other Learning Areas: Mathematics
ACMMG037 – Compare and order several shapes and objects based on length, area, volume and capacity using appropriate uniform informal units
Platform:
iPads
Website: http://classroom.4teachers.org
Overview:
This activity helps to develop students concept of designing a classroom using shapes to outline objects. The activity would be completed in a geometry lesson and looking at students recognition of shapes. Students will look at objects around the room and position them on their own template by incorporating various shapes to represent different objects. Once students have drawn their objects, they then need to use shapes in the website classroom architect to represent a layout of a classroom. The app allows you to print the final products to assist in assessment.
I really like how this can take a subject like geometry and turn into a real world experience for the students. Any opportunity where the learning can be transformed and adapted to integrate the immediate environment of the students makes it such a more meaningful learning experience.
Thank you for sharing this resource.
Claire