Approach: Station |
Level:
Year 8
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Focus:
Interpreting a plan. |
Resources:
Pictures in answer
booklet. |
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344KB |
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Questions/instructions:
Look at the picture
and plan of the house then answer the questions.
(click
on images for enlargement)
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House Plan
(click on image for enlagement) |
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responses
2002 '98 |
y8 |
1. Put a cross on the plan to show the front door.
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correct
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76
(79) |
2.
How many bedrooms are there? |
3
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99
(96) |
3.
Which room has the biggest wardrobe? |
bedroom
1, bed 1 (4 x 3.5, rm 1) |
92
(90) |
4.
Draw a line on the plan to show the shortest way from the laundry to the
lounge. |
correct
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73
(69) |
5.
What direction are you facing when you are in the kitchen looking out
to the dining area? |
North
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84
(82) |
6.
There is a clothes line beside the house.
Draw the clothes line in the right place on the plan.
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drawn
in appropriate region |
53
(49) |
7. The person who drew the plan has not labelled the part shown like this.
What is it?
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sundeck,
patio, tiled area, etc
[Not
marked. Many students noted the materials used rather than the function
of the area] |
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Commentary:
Year 8 students performed similarly on this task in 1998 and 2002.
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