Designing a school building
 
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Lesson 1

Looking at what constitutes a good team. What kind of team player are you? Deciding on a team for the project.

Presentation: Choosing a team
Belbin roles [Word]

Lesson 2

Introduction to the project. Looking around the building. What could the project be?

Proposal Speech

Lesson 3/4

Writing questionnaires and surveys

Presentation: Questionnaires

Lesson 5

Conducting survey and questionnaires in the local area.

Survey [Word]

Lesson 6/7

Drawing charts

Presentation: Drawing charts

Lesson 8

Interpreting charts

Presentation: Misleading diagrams
Presentation: Interpreting graphs

Lesson 9

Deciding on an idea. Researching the project.

Research Handout

Lesson 10

Writing a proposal.

Presentation: Writing a proposal
Handout 1: PALL Checklist
Handout 2: Persuasive Writing
Handout 3: Writing a proposal
Handout 4: Writing vocabulary

Lesson 11

Looking at scales and scale drawings.

Presentation: Scale drawings

Lesson 12

Drawing scale drawings/ understanding the scale drawings that you have been given [footprints]

Presentation: Scale drawings

Lesson 13/14

Writing a letter for planning permission.

Presentation: Writing a formal letter
Layout handout

Lesson 15/16/17

Costing for the project. Research and present in Excel.

Presentation: Costing of each room
Presentation: Compound shapes
Presentation: Triangles and rectangles
Presentation: Percentage recap

Lesson 18/19

Advertising the project.

Presentation: Advertisement
House to advertisement 1 [Publisher]
House to advertisement 2 [Publisher]
Commercial property to rent [Publisher]

Lesson 20

Presentation skills

YouTube video: Presentation skills
YouTube video: How many errors?

Lesson 21

Putting together a presentation.

Give pupils time to put the presentation together. They may wish to put it all together on a power point.

Lesson 22

Recording presentation.

Groups to video record each other doing their presentation.

Pupils to watch the video and teacher can feedback areas of improvement.
Lesson 23

Give presentation.

To give the project more status it would be a good idea to ask a member of the Senior Management Team to come and watch the presentations and pick a winner.

Examples of a presentation can be seen attached.

Example of plans
Example of power point
Example of script cards
Example of script

If an English teacher is present they can give the pupils a speaking grade which can go towards their GCSE English language.

 

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