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Building a Home

Mission: build a model home for a family in the African desert

The home you build needs to be suitable for the environment.

The African desert environment is very hot and dry.

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Needs: As you design your home think about how you can keep the family living there cool, and how they will get food and water.

Thinking Skills

Why would people have their home in the African desert?

What things do some other houses in Africa have that you might use in your model?

How will you keep the home cool?

How will the family get and keep water?

How will the family find food?

Design Needs

Draw the plan for your home. Clearly label it with the things it needs for the environment.

Materials

What materials would a home in this environment be made with?

What materials will you use to build your small model home?

Extras (wants)

What can you build on or in this house to make it a dream house for this environment? What extra things will make it amazing?

Method

First we

Next we

Then we

After that we

Finally we

Finished Home

Reflection

We built this home for the .

We think we did a good job of

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We think we could have improved the

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If you had to build this house again, what would you do differently?

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