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Design Your Dream Home

Draw a floor plan to scale, price the build and pitch your home design.

Your mission

Design a home your family would love — and show it fits a real budget.

Learning goals

  • • Use scale and area in a real design
  • • Work within a budget
  • • Communicate a design to an audience

You'll need

  • • Grid paper
  • • Ruler
  • • Pencil

Optional: Camera or tablet for photos of your work

Project stages

0/5 tasks

Discover

~25 min

Find out what you already know and gather ideas before you start building.

  • Brief the client

    Interview your family about what they need in a home.

    ~25 min · Parent guidance: Check in at the end of the task and talk it through together.

    Extra challenge: add one more detail to your discover work and explain why you chose it.

Plan

~45 min

Turn your ideas into a plan you can actually follow.

  • Scale drawing

    Draw the floor plan on grid paper using a scale like 1 square = 1 metre.

    ~45 min · Parent guidance: Check in at the end of the task and talk it through together.

    Extra challenge: add one more detail to your plan work and explain why you chose it.

Create

~40 min

Make the main part of your project.

  • Cost it out

    Research rough costs and build a simple budget table.

    ~40 min · Parent guidance: Stay nearby for set-up, then let your learner lead.

    Extra challenge: add one more detail to your create work and explain why you chose it.

Test

~20 min

Try it out and see what works.

  • Does it work?

    Walk through a day in the house — does the layout make sense?

    ~20 min · Parent guidance: Stay nearby for set-up, then let your learner lead.

    Extra challenge: add one more detail to your test work and explain why you chose it.

Present

~25 min

Share your work with your family or group.

  • Design pitch

    Present your plan and budget to the family.

    ~25 min · Parent guidance: Check in at the end of the task and talk it through together.

    Extra challenge: add one more detail to your present work and explain why you chose it.

Australian Curriculum links

Mathematics · Measurement and Space

Learners apply Mathematics skills while planning, making and presenting "Design Your Dream Home".

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Technologies · Inquiry and skills

Learners apply Technologies skills while planning, making and presenting "Design Your Dream Home".

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The Arts · Inquiry and skills

Learners apply The Arts skills while planning, making and presenting "Design Your Dream Home".

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English · Inquiry and skills

Learners apply English skills while planning, making and presenting "Design Your Dream Home".

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Curriculum links are editorial suggestions only. Tivoraly is not endorsed by or affiliated with ACARA.

Reflection

  • • What part of this project are you most proud of?
  • • What was tricky, and how did you work it out?
  • • What would you change if you did it again?
  • • What is one new thing you can now explain to someone else?

Completion checklist

  • ☐ All stages marked complete
  • ☐ Final product finished
  • ☐ Evidence uploaded (photo, writing, audio or video)
  • ☐ Reflection questions answered
  • ☐ Presented to family or group
  • ☐ Parent review complete