This little project was first suggested by Harry Clements-Shepherd, and we offer it to you for your consideration. The aim of this project is for students to form small collaborative teams to investigate and design various types of dwellings that can be designed on paper, then produced in logo in the form of some sort of cut-out houses . The teams then combine with other class members to assemble a village or other combination of dwellings e.g. space station, medieval castle, underwater world. A further facet to this project is to get kids in various schools to collaborate in email to share ideas and help each other with the programming.
First step is to draw a simple line.
Kids then cut out the shape, fold it along the lines, and glue it into a cube Other Exercises Students then may investigate various types of shapes, designing of nets with pencil and paper. Kids could also pull apart boxes to see how they are constructed. Kids then investigate their types of dwelling, investigating through books, models and pictures. They then must construct it to scale. Now the trick is to get the kids to design houses of some sort.