Minecraft in Education: 5th Grade Volume Project (PBL)
In this project students took on the role of architects from an architecture firm. Their objective was to design a home for Mr. Python and his family. Mr. Python provided a few specifications for the design: Home must have a footprint of 150 to 250 square meters (The footprint is the area of the home site, defined by the perimeter of the building plan.) At least 3 bedrooms (One master bedroom, one for the daughter and one for the son) Wants lot of natural sunlight coming into the home Multi-story home (home that has multiple of floors) Home must be a composite rectangular prism, made up of at least three or more of these rectangular prisms that are all different sizes (Composite rectangular prism: composed of two or more non-overlapping right rectangular prisms) Would like to know the volume of each of the non-overlapping rectangular prisms and also the total volume of the home Here is the video of Mr. Python asking students to design a home for his ...
