DREAM HOUSE PROJECT

Dream House Project

You are going to create your DREAM HOUSE! First, draw the outside of your dream house. Your dream house should be a figure made only of right angles! Divide your dream house into rooms. Each room must be a rectangle or a square. Label and color each room. If you have time, you can decorate it. Find and record the area of each room. You must also label the dimensions of each room. Add the area of all the rooms to find the total area of your DREAM HOUSE! 1. You will do a rough draft using graph paper. 2. You will do a final copy on a white sheet of paper. 3. After completing your final copy, you will write a passage about your dream house. Explain why you made it the way you did and why you included the rooms you did. 4. Have fun! Be creative, but do not forget the necessities!! Here is how you will be graded: 1 2 3 4 5 Good design Exceptional Basic design of idea but not Detailed design House and detailed Incomplete house but no exciting, with a few Creativity design with a rooms labeled missing several parts missing lot of creativity parts One or two Most rooms All rooms Room Most rooms rooms labeled labeled, but labeled and Dimensions dimensions not labeled with labeled labeled labeled correctly dimensions incorrectly correctly Area of each Area not Area of each Area always Area always room and total Area always room not displayed but is displayed and house area is Displayed displayed and displayed incorrect correct displayed and is not correct correct Writing Writing does Writing Writing combines all not do a explains house explains house Writing traits and Not complete complete job of but needs help and needs little Passage shows great explaining with help with excitement house conventions conventions about house Total Points Earned _____________ / 20