Results are recorded on a T-Chart. Discuss the relative scale of doors to an adult and then to a child. Stress the idea that a door must be tall enough to walk through. Teacher explains that students are to draw people in the pictures who would be able to go through the doors of the building. An additional activity would be for the picture to project a transparency onto white butcher paper so that a larger scale could be achieved.
Students place two or three items on top of their desks.
Using graph paper and a measuring tape or ruler, they make a scale drawing of their desks and then the items they have chosen. They label their drawings, including the scale they have used. Working with a partner, students draw to scale a floor plan of their classroom. They label the furniture, cut the furniture out and glue the pieces to their scale drawing. If possible, several partners are selected to then move the classroom furniture to fit their drawing.