DIY Housing CGEA Literacy Resource
Winner of the Innovation in ACE Learning Award
for 2006 DIY Housing is now available.
The resource, details presented at 2006 VALBEC
Conference, is a teacher friendly resource relevant to
the new Certificates in General Education for Adults.
DIY Housing provides ten specific sections of work. Included are sample lesson plans and worksheets for lower and upper levels, plus a myriad of further activities that can be developed in the topics linking work levels to the CGE A.
The worksheets are easily photocopiable (spiral bound) providing a very user friendly resource for teachers. Sample of the resource are included on SGAE’s web site www.sgae.vic.edu.au
The resource is the first of a series of three the other two DIY Gardening and DIY Cooking will be available later this year and early next year.
“I was nearly ready to give up teaching Adult Literacy when I discovered this resource. It gave me a whole new approach to teaching the CGEA – so many new ideas, life-skill orientated, relevant to a range of adult learners, and versatile to a variety of teaching situations.”
- experienced Adult Literacy Teacher
Enquiries or to order phone Southern Grampians Adult Education 5571 9900.
Experience in dealing with students who exhibit a resistance to traditional teaching methods and formal educational scenarios underpinned the development of this resource. Many learners require different pathways into re-engaging with education. In order to engage students with limited literacy skills, SGAE teachers have had to widely source class materials or generate their own to meet students’ levels of skill and interest. Our approach recognises that you cannot expect to solve a problem using the same thinking that created the problem. The development of this DIY theme provides learners with a new and relevant context for literacy and learning.
This book, developed as a resource for teachers using the new Certificates in General Education for Adults, is also relevant for Adult Community Education Centres, TAFE Institutes and Secondary Schools (in not only the school environment but also in alternative programs such as the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning). The content is also applicable to English as a Second Language programs. With the new CGEA linked to the National Reporting System, transferability to a range of learning environments is straightforward. DIY Housing is the first in a series of practical resource books based on lifestyle themes.
The resource provides ten specific housing units, sample lesson plans with accompanying worksheets and a myriad of further activities that can be developed within the topics linking the work levels to the CGEA. Units can be used individually, for a short course of study, or in conjunction with each other to build up wider programs of study allowing for a variety of directions and topics of interest. Class lesson plans with their accompanying photocopiable master worksheets can be followed as presented, or easily adapted providing teachers with the framework for a multitude of classes.
Literacy is more than reading and writing. It is about social practices and relationships, about knowledge, language and culture. It takes many forms: on paper, on the computer screen, on television, on posters and signs. Those who use literacy take it for granted. With poor literacy skills, people are excluded from communication in today’s world. Whoever uses this resource will have the opportunity to enhance the passions of the resource developers in providing individuals the opportunity to improve their literacy skills and communication in their everyday lives.
Julie Neeson
Executive Officer
Southern Grampians Adult Education
Table of Contents
Unit 1 Types of Houses
Unit 2 Houses of the World
Unit 3 House Plans
Unit 4 How to Start Building
Unit 5 Sourcing House Design and Construction
Unit 6 House Design
Unit 7 Room Design
Unit 8 House Location
Unit 9 House Construction
Unit 10 Decorating House Interior
References
Mail Order Form
SAMPLE LESSON PLAN |
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Initial Course, Certificate 1 (Introductory) and Certificate 1 |
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Section 10 |
DECORATING HOUSE INTERIORS
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§ To consider how you could decorate your house. § To measure room and house areas. § To cost materials based on area.
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§ Lifestyle magazines focusing on interior decorating. § Brochures from hardware stores featuring paint and other materials. § Worksheet: Painting Rooms.
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§ Which areas of your house are you going to decorate? § How can you decorate these? With what? § What do you have to consider when decorating your house? - painting - carpeting - wallpaper - area of space to be decorated - cost of materials - time involved in decorating: labour, waiting time § How can you work out the cost? - measurement
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Activities
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§ Visit a paint shop to collect colour charts. § Use magazines and colour charts to gain ideas for colour schemes for your room. § Find common colour combinations. Are they warm or cool colours? § Compare to your favourite colour(s). How do they differ? § Choose colours for your own house: walls, skirting boards, roof. Why did you choose them? § Use worksheet to survey different people on how they feel about a range of colours. § What is the most commonly liked/disliked colour? § Depict the results in simple graphs and pie charts. § Choose decorations that would go with your chosen colour schemes, in different rooms of your house: State why you have chosen the colours for specific rooms; why you chose the decorations; why the decorations would suit.
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Suitable for Units
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Reading and Writing § Texts for personal purposes § Texts for learning purposes § Texts to participate in the community
Numeracy and Mathematics § Measurement and design § Numerical and statistical information § FDFCORBM2A: Use basic mathematical concepts |
Verbal Communication § VBQU166: Develop verbal communication skills § VBQU170: Communicate with others in familiar and predictable contexts § VBM300: Basic presentation skills § FDFOPTTG2A: Participate in work teams and groups |
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PAINTING ROOMS |
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§ Are there particular colours that you like? Name them. § Do a mini-survey of preferred colours for interior walls in houses.
§ Using the survey results, discuss how different colours make individuals feel. § How many people liked your favourite colour(s)? § What rooms do you associate with different colours? Why? |
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Certificate 2 and Certificate 3 |
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Section 10 |
DECORATING HOUSE INTERIORS
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Purpose |
§ To consider how you could decorate your house. § To measure room and house areas. § To cost materials based on area.
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§ Lifestyle magazines focusing on interior decorating. § Brochures from hardware stores featuring paint and other materials. § Worksheet: Paint a Feature Wall
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§ Which areas of your house are you going to decorate? § How can you decorate these? With what? § What do you have to consider when decorating your house? - painting - carpeting - wallpaper - area of space to be decorated - cost of materials - time involved in decorating: labour, waiting time § How can you work out the cost? - measurement
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§ Visit a paint shop to collect colour charts. § Use magazines and colour charts to gain ideas for colour schemes for your room. § Research common colour combinations. § Choose colours for your own house. § Use worksheet to determine the amount of paint needed to decorate a feature wall in your house. § Measure the length, height and area of your wall. § Calculate the costs of the undercoat and top coat of paint needed to cover the wall, using brochures from hardware stores for costs of materials. § Determine a household budget that will allow for costs of paint. § Choose decorations that would go with your feature room; state why. § Research current tax laws regarding investment properties, and how they relate to painting walls of a house.
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Suitable for Units
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Reading and Writing § Texts for personal purposes § Texts for learning purposes § Texts to participate in the community § BSBADM302A: Produce texts from notes
General § VBQM481: Australian Law
Financial Literacy SRSCOP006B: Complete a tax return |
Numeracy and Mathematics § Numerical and statistical information § VBQU152: Investigate and interpret measurements and related formulae for everyday purposes § VBQU154: Investigate and use simple mathematical formulae for everyday purposes § FNSLIT201A: Develop and use a personal budget § FNSLIT202A: Develop and use a savings plan
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PAINTING A FEATURE WALL
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§ Decide which wall of your room you would paint as a feature wall. § Estimate, then confirm, how much undercoat and top coat for the wall, and undercoat and top coat for the skirting board, will be needed.
§ Now follow these steps to work out the amount of paint needed, and how much it will cost. AREA OF FEATURE WALL
UNDERCOAT
TOP COAT
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UNDERCOAT
TOP COAT
§ How accurate were your estimations of area? § What is the total cost of paint required for undercoat and top coat? § Research tax laws regarding painting an investment property, and how a landlord can claim such expenses. § Define the difference between ‘deduction’ and ‘depreciation’; ‘maintenance’ and ‘improvement’. § Calculate financial returns over a one-year, five-year, ten-year, twenty-year period.
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ACTIVITIES LINKED TO THE CGEA |
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Initial Course (with extensive assistance) |
Certificate 1 (Introductory) (with assistance) |
Certificate 1 (with assistance as required) |
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§ List favourite colour(s) AND § Poll peers’ favourites AND § Display, interpret results in very simple line and bar graphs ____________________________ § State colour of own house AND § Survey peers on their house interior’s colour schemes THEN § Display results in simple line and bar graphs AND § Determine most and least widely used colours AND § Give an opinion as to why ____________________________ § View local houses AND § List colour schemes AND § Determine most and least popular colour schemes THEN § Represent data in pie charts
§ List common methods of interior decorating AND § Estimate, then measure rooms, in non-standard measures AND § Estimate, then measure paint quantities needed for walls, skirting boards, ceilings AND § Determine accuracy of estimations THEN § Determine very simple materials costs per area, from pamphlets and excursions to showrooms AND § Make very simple calculations of materials costs using addition and subtraction THEN § Compare costs to quality of paint, tiles, carpet THEN § Cost a very simple room refurbishment to a given budget, using catalogues and samples ____________________________ § List vocabulary of texture, appearance: matt and gloss, rough and smooth, so on AND § Match samplers for own choice of colour and texture AND § Survey peers on liked and disliked textures THEN § Represent data mathematically ___________________________ § Define ‘decoration’ AND § Discuss type, size of ornaments suitable for different rooms AND § Determine costs of ornaments, accessories from brochures AND § Make simple decorations for different rooms THEN § Determine very basic difference in cost to make and to buy
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§ List favourite colour(s) AND § Poll peers’ favourites THEN § Display, interpret results in very simple line and bar graphs ____________________________ § State colour of own house AND § Survey peers on their house interior’s colour schemes THEN § Display results in simple line and bar graphs AND § Determine most and least widely used colours AND § Give an opinion as to why ____________________________ § View local houses AND § List colour schemes AND § Determine most and least popular colour schemes from a selection of houses and other buildings in local area THEN § Represent data in pie charts __________________________ § List common methods of interior decorating AND § Estimate, then measure rooms (perimeter, length, height, width, area) using non-standard and standard measurements AND § Estimate, then measure quantities of paint AND § Determine accuracy of estimations THEN § Determine very simple materials costs per area AND § Make very simple calculations of materials costs using addition and subtraction THEN § Compare costs to quality of paint, tiles, carpet THEN § Cost a very simple room refurbishment to a given budget ____________________________ § Brainstorm vocabulary to describe texture, appearance AND § Match samplers for own choice of colour and texture AND § Survey peers on liked and disliked textures THEN § Represent data mathematically __________________________ § Define ‘decoration’ AND § Discuss type, size of ornaments suitable for different rooms AND § Determine costs of ornaments, accessories from brochures AND § Make simple decorations for different rooms THEN § Determine very basic difference in cost to make and to buy
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§ List favourite colour(s) AND § Poll peers’ favourites THEN § Display, interpret results in simple line and bar graphs ____________________________ § State colour scheme of own house interior AND § Survey peers on their house interior’s colour schemes THEN § Display results in simple line and bar graphs AND § Determine most and least widely used colours AND § Give an opinion as to why ____________________________ § Walk around local area to view house exteriors AND § List colour schemes AND § Determine most and least popular colour schemes THEN § Represent data in pie charts __________________________ § List common methods of interior decorating AND § Estimate, then measure rooms, in standard measurements AND § Estimate, then measure quantities of paint needed AND § Determine accuracy of estimations THEN § Determine simple materials costs per area AND § Make simple calculations of materials costs using addition and subtraction, simple multiplication and division THEN § Compare costs to quality of paint, tiles, carpet THEN § Cost a simple room refurbishment to a given budget ____________________________ § Brainstorm vocabulary to describe textures and appearance: using tile, carpet samplers AND § Match samplers for own choice of colour and texture AND § Survey peers on liked and disliked textures THEN § Represent data mathematically __________________________ § Define ‘decoration’ AND § Discuss type, size of ornaments suitable for different rooms AND § Determine costs of ornaments, accessories from brochures AND § Make simple decorations for different rooms THEN § Determine basic differences in cost to make and to buy
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Certificate 2 (with minimal assistance) |
Certificate 3 (effectively independently) |
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§ Study colour psychology AND § List favourite colour(s) AND § Poll peers’ favourites THEN § Display results in graphs AND § Interpret using colour psychology ____________________________ § Study wavelength frequencies of different colours AND § Study experiments with colour, eg. effect on plant growth THEN § Report on scientific and mathematical data ____________________________ § State colour scheme of own house interior AND § Survey peers on their house interior’s colour schemes AND § Determine most and least widely used colours THEN § Interpret using colour psychology ____________________________ § View local house exteriors AND § Determine most and least popular colour schemes THEN Interpret using colour psychology ___________________________ § List common methods of interior decorating AND § Estimate, then measure rooms, and quantities of materials needed AND § Gauge estimation accuracy THEN § Calculate and compare materials costs and quality AND § Cost a complex room refurbishment to own budget _____________________________ § Describe textures and appearance of tile, carpet samplers AND § Match samplers for own choice of colour and texture AND § Survey peers on liked and disliked textures THEN § Relate to data on favourite colours, results from colour psychology AND § Interpret correlations _____________________________ § Define ‘decoration’ AND § Study and recommend ornaments suitable for differently sized rooms, with reasoning AND § Determine costs from internet using simple formulae, making currency conversions, factoring in taxes THEN § Make complex decorations for different rooms AND § Determine complex differences in cost to make and to buy |
§ Research the concept of colour psychology, and its effects AND § List favourite colour(s) AND § Poll peers’ favourites THEN § Display in graphs AND § Analyse using colour psychology ____________________________ § Study wavelength frequencies of different colours AND § Study colour experiments THEN § Report on and analyse scientific and mathematical data ____________________________ § State colour scheme of own house interior AND § Survey peers on their house interior’s colour schemes AND § Determine most and least widely used colours THEN § Analyse using colour psychology ____________________________ § View local house exteriors AND § Determine most and least popular colour schemes THEN § Analyse using colour psychology ___________________________ § List common methods of interior decorating AND § Estimate, then measure rooms, quantities of materials needed AND § Gauge estimation accuracy THEN § Calculate and compare materials costs and quality AND § Cost a highly complex room refurbishment to own budget _____________________________ § Describe appearance, textures of tile, carpet samplers AND § Match samplers for own choice of colour and texture AND § Survey peers on liked and disliked textures THEN § Relate to data on favourite colours, results from colour psychology AND § Analyse correlations _____________________________ § Define ‘decoration’ AND § Research and recommend a range of ornaments suitable for differently sized rooms, with reasoning AND § Determine costs from internet using complex formulae, making currency conversions, factoring in taxes and other considerations associated with international trade THEN § Make very complex decorations for different rooms AND § Determine very complex differences in cost to make and to buy |
