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Area of Interaction: Environments Significant Concept: The environment that surrounds us influences the end result. Unit Question: How does the Environment change or shape you? Requirements:
 * Follow instructions given to create a practice house while learning Sketch up.
 * You will participate in a class activity to find your design specifications (type of house, location, etc).
 * Using those specifications, you will research the best design for your given situation.
 * Using Google Sketch Up you are going to design a house to meet specific environmental requirements.

Criterion A - Research and Analysis
 As a class we will go through and learn the basics of Google Sketch up. In order to get full credit for Criterion A, you will need to follow instructions while creating the practice house.

Upload Practice House here.

We will do an activity as a class to determine the design specifications of your house. Location:New Yorkv Shape:Square Number of People: 3 people

Using the Internet, you are going to research your assigned location to determine if there are specific building requirements.

1. What material should be used in building your house? (ex. wood, brick, concrete)

2. Is there land available for a large home? Or does the location require a smaller house?

3. Will you have a multi-level house?

4. What kind of roof will your house need?

Criterion B - Design
 Now that you have the specifications, you are going to use the Design Worksheet to create a blueprint of your house. You need to include front door, windows, bathrooms, kitchen, bedrooms, living room, and any other feature you are going to use in your design.

--Remember: You will need to justify any changes made to your design blueprint when you are designing your house.--

Must turn in your Design Blueprint worksheet to receive credit for Criterion B 

Criterion C - Create
 Your design/blueprint should be all complete and ready for you to create the Sketch up house to fit the plans.

For this house you are starting with a blank file and not using a previously built house. Here are the requirements that you should have in the house: --Walls --Windows --Doors --Bathroom --Kitchen --Bedroom(s) --Living Room/Family Room --Walls Painted --Some kind of flooring --Windows filled in (either transparent or with a window component) --Front Door component --Furniture in the entire house (as if a family could move in today) --Anything else you decided to include.

Once you have completed your Sketch up House, upload the file here.

Answer the following questions - 1. Does your house follow the design/blueprints? If not, what changes did you make and why? yes it does meet the blueprint 

2. What did you like most about this project? (name at least one thing) That I got to design the house

3. What would you change about this project for the future? (name at least one thing) Get to choose location, shape, and how many bed rooms there is.

Criterion D - Evaluate
 1. How did the environment you were assigned (location, number of people, shape) affect the type of house you created? I couldn't make it to big because it was in New York and the square footage wasn't that big

2. Would you have built a different house if those specifications hadn't been given to you? Why or Why Not? Yes i would have made it a lot bigger. Also i would have made it with a lot of rooms

Unit Questions -

3. How has your own personal environment shaped/changed you? (at least 3-4 complete sentences) I don't think my environment has changed me. I might get in more trouble just because the people i'm around. I think that's the only thing that has changed

4. What can you do in your own environment to guarantee the future that you want? (2-3 complete sentences) Get more focused on school than other things. Not go hang ou twith my friends when i need to do my homework

