Hello, STEAM Enrichment families!
The students spent the last week in my class working on their Tiny House projects. Students worked in pairs (or individually if they chose) to create a blueprint of a Tiny House. All blueprints were due last week for approval in order for them to continue on with the construction/engineering, math, and reading/research portion of the project. The Geometry portion of the project is due today (students are required to find the area and perimeter of each required object on their blueprints).
Students will spend this week reading about “The Tiny House Movement” and summarizing their research about it. They will also construct their Tiny House prototypes using a template that they were given in class. Students are required to construct a prototype model of their approved blueprint.
For “The Tiny House Movement” summary (at least TEN complete sentences), students must answer the following questions:
- What is a Tiny House? (brief description)
- What is the Tiny House Movement?
- Why is the Tiny House Movement becoming popular?
- Why are people choosing to live in Tiny Houses? (identify 3 reasons)
- What are the challenges to living in Tiny Houses? (identify 2 challenges)
- Who’s joining the Tiny House Movement and why? (identify 2 subgroups)
For their final project, students will display their blueprint, Geometry data, Tiny House prototype, and article summary on construction paper.
All projects should be completed by the end of each class period on Thursday, February 13.
Grade breakdown:
Blueprint = 10 points (Formative)
Geometry = 22 points (Formative)
Summary = 15 points (Formative)
Final Project = 50 points (Summative)
