Students will compare and contrast the different floor plans with a 1930s bungalow. Locate and describe diverse kinds of communities and explain the reasons for their characteristics and locations. Acquire information from observation of the local environment. Organize information to make and interpret simple maps of their local surroundings and simple graphs and tables of social data drawn from their experiences. They include the shape and measurements of each room.
Directions Ask students to take a measuring tape and measure each room in their home.
Have them take a piece of paper and draw a floor plan of their home with each room in it. If large paper is available and you want to simplify the exercise, use 1 inch to one foot. Students will need to include the measurements of each room and figure out the square feet for each room. Have them figure out the total square footage of the house by adding the square footage of all the rooms together. Have students draw a picture of the outside of their homes.