House

and Home
Future Living
Ms. Scheckel


Learning Objectives:
1) Predict housing trends in the future
2) Compare and contrast housing in 2015 vs 2035
3) Analyze social, envrionmental, political, global, and lifestyle trends and how they
will impact our housing in the future


Evidence of Learning
Create a newspaper from the future (2035). Articles, stories, images, etc... that will
describe housing in 2035. Describe what caused the changes since 2015?


Potential categories for students to write about predictions:

Environmental friendliness (solar, wind, etc...) - use of natural resources
Size (home, rooms, etc...)
Furnishings
Building materials
Buying/Renting/Multi-family units
Solutions for homeless
Exterior (yards, landscaping, maintenance, etc...)
Appliances
Time saving features
Impact of technology
Lifestyle/Family dynamics
Garages/transportation
Security Systems


Next Steps
Beth
Create guidelines/instructions for this project.
Describe what your expectations are for the final product
# of categories used
length of the newspaper
level of creativity expected (how will they show creativity)
required features? (images, layout, title, etc)
Etc
We will work on a rubric based on your Expectations AND the Learning Objectives

Bill
Research options for creating the newspaper, including e-versions. If nothing else,
we will use the Publishing feature in MS Word


Next Meeting Tuesday, 12/8
A) Develop a Rubric

B) As you are developing your plans and guidelines, here are some questions to
consider. We can discuss these more on Tuesday.

1. How will you help students build background knowledge?
2. How will you facilitate, question, or lead students through tasks that increase
their understanding
3. Will the students be able to interact with each other? Would this be
beneficial? If so, how would this look?
4. Are there any graphic organizers we could provide that would assist in the
student process of developing their newspaper?
5. Will you provide feedback as they are progressing? How? How will you
monitor? (ex. Checkpoints, formative assessments, etc?)
6. How will students be sharing their understanding? Will they just turn in
their newspaper or will they share what theyve done/learned with others?