Design-A-Room
A Math Webquest
By: Alexandria White
bella6400@bellsouth.net
Introduction
 Task
 Process
 Evaluation
 Conclusion

Introduction

You get to design your very own room! You can do this by measuring your selected room and then choosing your furniture based on the height, width, and depth of you room. You will get to use multiplication and addition to figure out these things. Once you have finished with all this, you can finally tweak it out any way you want to until you have found and made your perfect dream room! 

When you are through with this webquest, you will be able to answer the following questions: 1) How can you use addition to find the perimeter of your room? 2) What do you need to do to find the area of your room? 3) What role does multiplication play in finding the area of your room?



Task

Once you have finished planning your room, you will have a brand new bedroom or other living space that you can furnish and maybe someday live in and it’s all yours! What you will be doing is:

In order to complete this project, you will need to have access to the internet.




Process

IMPORTANT!!! Read the whole process before you click on any website addresses!

 

  1. First, go to this site to learn and refresh your memory on how to calculate the perimeter of a rectangle: http://www.321know.com/g58_pex1.htm
  2. You will also need to know how to find the area of a rectangle so that you can know how much furniture you can put in your room. The following website should help you out with learning how to do that:  http://www.321know.com/g58_arx2.htm
  3. Now that you know how to calculate the area and the perimeter of a rectangular- sized room, you need to get a pencil and a sheet of graph paper. If you have rectangular room with a width of 15 feet and a length of 19 feet, what is the perimeter of your room? What is the area of your room?
  4. Now it’s your turn to draw a room on your graph paper with a length of 12 feet and a width of 8 feet. Each square on your graph paper represents 1 foot. Draw this room and then once again find the area and the perimeter of your room.
  5. After you have drawn the last room, you can go to a website that has a special pre-made room planner where you can play with your room and tweak it out however you want. But before you go to this website, you must find the area and the perimeter of the room on the website. Ok, this is important. The room on the website is 20 by 16 feet. On your graph paper, find the area and then the perimeter of the room.
  6. Next, you can go ahead on to the website (but only if you have found the area and the perimeter of the online room). The web address is:   http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/pac_ctnt_wide/text/0,,HGTV_17897_23822,00.html. Once you get to the website, scroll down until you see a blank space. In the top left corner of the screen you will see a drop down bar that says “Accessories”. Click on it and select the type of room called the “Children’s Room”. Underneath where you selected this, a list will appear of items that belong in a children’s room. Click on the main things that belong in the room first, like the door, windows, and things like that. Then click on an item, for example, the bed, and drag it over to the blank space provided to the right. You can place it anywhere you wish, as long as there is room left to walk around. Do this with any items you want to go in your bedroom.  Once you have finished, show your teacher for a grade. Don’t forget, you will need to turn in your sheet of graph paper as well!
  7. Wait! There’s more. Now you can switch the type of room you’re designing and add specific furniture pieces until you have designed another great living space! And guess what? It’s all for fun!

Evaluation
 

You will be graded on your performance of this project using a rubric. That way you can judge your own work before you finalize it.
On it will be: 


Conclusion

By the time you have finished this website, you will know how to do the following:

I really do hope you have had fun learning about the perimeter and area of rooms in a fun way! This will help you a LOT when you get to middle school, I promise! Now that you have completed this webquest, you can feel free to go back and redesign it anyway you wish to, without being graded! Have fun!