Lego+Mania

Working together, your group will produce a real estate development project using Legos as your primary building materials. This could be a rural farm community, a small community of houses, or a commercial district of a city or town. It could also be a castle, estate, or town in history or a community of the future. This project will include the following:

**1. A folder of notes, lists, sketches, pictures, graphs, dimensions, etc. from your planning stage**

 Before you get started, you will need to discuss what kind of real estate you are going to create, what buildings/structures will be included, initial measurements of the buildings, and ideas for landscaping, decorations, and accessories. Make a list of ideas for each. Draw sketches for each other to share your ideas. Write out some possible dimensions. Save all of your work in your folder.

**2. A Lego complex which includes at least four buildings, landscaping, decorations, and accessories**

The buildings should be complicated structures with lots of angles, dimensions, extensions, etc. Your landscaping, decorations and accessories should create an interesting environment/context for your complex. Do n't limit yourself to accessories in the Lego set. Be creative about your use of materials. Create an aesthetically pleasing project.

 **3. A display of the volumes of your buildings**

 Use pictures, charts, graphs, or spreadsheets to display the information in a way that shows more than just the total volume of each building. For example, you may want to show the number of Lego units you used of each color. Use your analytical thinking to come up with other ways to categorize the materials used.




 * 4. A booklet which advertises your project**



As the architects, you need to convince people to put money into this project. You are extremely proud of your work and want to show others what you have created.

**5. A presentation of your project to the class**

 Try to think of some unusual way of presenting your project. How about a video, a skit, a commercial, or a panel presentation? Your information should be well organized and clearly presented, but use your imagination, as well, to create an interesting presentation format.

**6. An evaluation of your project and how your group worked together**  Each of you will submit an individual evaluation of your group's project. You will use the rubric to rate each aspect of the project. In addition, you will write out comments concerning how your group worked together and the part you played in the process.


 * 7. Challenge A bill for the cost of the basic Lego building materials**



Assign a different dollar amount to each Lego color. For example, red could be worth $3.00 a Lego unit. Write out a itemized bill for the cost of the basic building materials for your Lego complex.

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**<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">RUBRIC FOR THE LEGO VOLUME DEVELOPMENT PROJECT <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> **
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A rubric spells out the expectations for a student's work on a particular assignment. This rubric will help guide you as to your teachers' expectations for the LEGO VOLUME DEVELOPMENT UNIT. By using the rubric to guide your work, you should be able to produce a work of highest quality. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">

<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**Quantity quality of Buildings**
 * || <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**__4+__** || <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**4** || <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**3** || <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**2** || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**1** ||

|| <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**More than 6 buildings with superior complexity.** || <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**At least 6 buildings with greater complexity.**

|| <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**At least 5 buildings with greater complexity,** || <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**At least 4 buildings with minimal complexity.** || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**Less than 4 buildings with no complexity** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**Building measure display** || <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**Each buildings volume Is Imaginatively displayed** || <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**Each building's volume Is displayed as well as graphs with color** || <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**Each building's volume Is displayed in an organized fashion**

|| <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**Each building's volume Is displayed.** || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Volumes are missing or poorly displayed. ** || mentioned components ** || **<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The booklet Is eye catching, colorful and full of detailed Information ** || **<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The booklet Is colorful with details about each building, ** || **<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The booklet contains information about each building, ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The booklet contains little information and Is not neatly done ** || .** || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**Very creative & unique landscaping, decorations &** || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**Landscaping, decorations & accessories that create a great aesthetic effect** || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**Good use of landscaping, decorations & accessories** || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**Some landscaping, decorations & accessories** || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**Poor landscaping, few decorations & accessories** || fashion, holding audience interest** || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**The project Is satisfactorily presented with some audience Interest,** || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**The project is poorly presented; does not hold the listeners attention.** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Advertising book for the project ** || **<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The booklet is very Imaginative with all the
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**Project Aesthetics
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**Presenting the project** || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**The project Is presented in a very unique & creative manner.** || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**The project Is a superior presentation as to organization, visuals, etc..captivating audience** || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**The project Is well presented loudly, clearly and In an organized