Mobile Home Designers

1. Mobile Home Designers Unit Portfolio Presentation Hayley Veach

2. Unit Summary In this project, students will pretend that they are a part of a business that builds mobile homes. Their boss just met with them and discussed with the different teams in the business that there is a large problem with declining sales of current mobile homes. This means that there must be a new design made that future home buyers will want to purchase. Each team must create a new design that must stay in the required frame measurements and include certain parts of a home. Each team will construct a model of the mobile home and a written description in the form of a sales brochure and deliver an oral presentation to market the newly designed mobile home.

3. Standards and Objectives Standards M.O.5.3.5 draw a similar figure using a scale, given a real-world situation. M.O. 5.4.1 estimate, measure, compare, order and draw lengths of real objects in parts of an inch up to 1/8 of an inch and millimeters M.O. 5.4.8. determine the actual measurements of a figure from a scale drawing, using multiple strategies. RLA.O. 5.2.02 arrange thoughts and ideas in graphic representations to plan and write a product RLA.O. 5.3.04 create an age-appropriate product that demonstrates format, purpose, and audience Objectives Students will: • -Research mobile designs. • -Create a design of the interior of a mobile home. • -Use a design to create a similar mobile home model in size. • -Create the design of a room inside their mobile home. • -Present a group sales presentation of their mobile home. • -Create a brochure to use as a written presentation.

4. Curriculum-Framing Questions Essential Question How can math affect the way we live? Unit Question What types of mathematical content can be used when building a house? Content Question What purpose does measurement have when laying out rooms in a house? How can making every room a different measurement affect the layout?

5. Vision for Unit By creating this unit, I want to.. • Engage my students in more real-life situations • Make math (measurement) more interesting and relevant to the students’ lives so they enjoy learning by using different strategies During this unit, I want my students to.. • Use their higher-level thinking skills to solve real-life situations • Improve their technology and research skills • Use their collaboration skills to present a product created by all group members to a specific audience.

6. Project Approaches While working on this project, the students will.. • Imagine they work for a business and apply the real-life scenarios that come along with that • Collaborate with their peers • Create a newly designed product using the recently learned math concepts to show how they can apply these concepts • Share their creative learning with an audience from another class in the form of a brochure, live model, and oral presentation

7. 21st Century Learning Students will develop higher-order thinking and 21st century skills in this unit as they do the following: • Use the CFQs to guide their thinking of how they are going to all design different models of the mobile home • Solve a problem by creating a new model of a mobile home. • Communicate their ideas at first to their group, and after collaborating & creating a product, communicate these ideas to a larger audience for persuasion • Reflect on their research, writing, building, and thinking strategies as a group and individually, and change and/or improve certain aspects if necessary • Use different assessments throughout the project to self-assess their individual work and the work of the group, as well as include their input and critiques for different ideas throughout their groups.

8. Gauging Student Needs Assessments Purpose- To gather information about the students and if they know how to use measurement to the nearest 1/8 inch and can apply real-life situations to their imagined mobile home design business. What I want to learn from my students- I want to find out what they already know about the CFQs and what they know about measurement to the nearest 1/8 inch. How I have tried to promote higher-order thinking- I ask students to place themselves in a mobile home candidates position by asking responsive questions to solve real-world situations that occur when building a home. How the assessment information helps me & my students plan for upcoming activities in the unit- If students do not understand what they could do to solve situations when building a mobile home, I will scaffold and place them in a group in which the other members have a more clear understanding so they can help that member out. If some of the students do not get the measurement questions correctly, I will spend more time on this because that is something that they will be doing throughout the entire unit. Feedback- I would like help on my assessments to promote more higher-level thinking.

9. Requests for Feedback • Would like ways to assess the students’ higher-order thinking skills • Different ways that students can work together besides sitting at a desk.