Constructing to Instruct
Buildometry
"When the Walls are Up. . ."
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
This page will greatly help you when you need to do a classroom assignment. Sometimes you do not get a chance to finish a classroom handout. When this happens--this is the place to come. Also, when you are absent and you have checked the calendar, here is where assignments might be. If the teacher is absent, then the classroom assignments for that day will be here.
The "Extreme Makeover" Home show has many important lessons---not the least of which; how building projects are organized and implemented. If you click on the picture above, you can access the classroom questions from the video. If you are at home, the video link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyJZH9yGUzQ .
As we begin to look at the next steps to the "scaled build" project, we will watch this presentation in class. This visual presentations takes into account many aspects of the building process; both historically and culturally. The end of the presentation focuses on our next structural endeavor once your walls our built----the roof!
You do not have to go far in the framing stages of a house to find geometry being used. This mathematical concept is part of this lesson. Click on the picture to access the information needed.
This article on the benefits of Green Building can be accessed by clicking on the picture.
On the Job Rafter Mathematics
