Creating a 3 D House

This assignment was designed to teach students how to format various cliparts/images and shapes.  The following is a shape called the Trapezoid.  It is used to form the left and right walls of the house.

The students must go on the Internet to find examples of rooms to design for their "make believe" house.   The students must then copy the image to their MS PowerPoint, 3 D Drawing ( its a room).

Sometimes it is necessary to recolor the image and crop the image.

1. Open up Microsoft PowerPoint
2. Click Open, Blank Presentation
3. On the first slide (Title Slide) . For Title type “My House”  and subtitle type your name
4. Look on the menu bar.  Select menu item Home.
5. Click on New Slide, Click on Layout  Choose blank

TO CREATE FRONT OF HOUSE

1. Now on menu bar,  Choose insert
2. Select shapes, Select the rectangle tool for house and Select trapezoid for roof to draw parts of house.
3. Click on Insert clipart to find windows and other things that you want on the front of the house or in your front yard.  ONLY ANIMATED CLIP ART.
4. Now click on  Home, and click on New Slide.
5. Click on Layout and Choose blank.
6. To draw the first room, click on the trapezoid.
7. Use the green circle to draw the left wall.
8. Place the base of the trapezoid against the left side of the slide and stretch the trapezoid to form the left wall.  LEAVE some space in the middle for the back wall.  See illustrations number 1 and 2.  Use rectangle for middle of the back wall.
9. For the right wall, use the green circle to reverse the trapezoid, to use the base against the right side of the slide.  

1.  Use the rectangle to draw the floor and ceiling  (illustration number 3).
2.  NOW you have to RIGHT mouse click on rectangle shape (the floor)  Click on Order and Select  Send to Back.  See illustration number 4.
3.  Now you must add seven items in the rooms. (Add Pictures, windows doors, ceiling fans, etc. See page 2.
4. Color for walls:
   1. You can click on the walls (Trapezoid figure) and  click on paint can and choose color.  Also, there is a way to google backgrounds and insert these for “specialty” walls.
      1. Practice drawing the walls for two different rooms and then you can click on slide and duplicate/copy the slide for other rooms.

THE TYPES OF ROOMS YOU SHOULD HAVE IN YOUR HOUSE  (9 slides total) .

Must have at least 5 items in each room/slide for a C,   6 items for a B, and 7 or more items for an A. 

You can put doors on one of your walls, pictures, windows, etc… (Put appropriate things that normally go on a wall and in a house.)

Total points = 66  points [Title slide is only worth 5 points]. 

No extra white spaces on pictures/images

Here are the choices for your House.    House A or House B

Conclusion

Congratulations, you finished another project.  Did you have fun?

Did you learn anything new?

Blog me about this project. 

Was this project meaningful to you?  Take the digital part of the project home show it to your family and friends.

I can show you how to convert it to another program if you need me to help you.

Credits

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by Loraine Hedgepeth, Averett University

This WebQuest will allow students to learn more about Microsoft PowerPoint.  This knowledge will help students successfully utilize this program for use in the classroom or professional setting.

Teacher Introduction

Instructors, this WebQuest is a great resource for your students to use to help them improve their communication skills in and outside of the classroom.  It is intended to give them experience in creating their own slide presentation and gain skills in using them either for a formal, informal and informational presentation.