This week we started with a formal lesson on scale factor. Rachel Cox, a 7th grade math teacher at Westport, taught this lesson since scale factor is part of the 7th grade core content. I think it was good for the girls to meet a teacher they will have next year, and they quickly realized that they could apply their 6th grade skills with fractions and decimals to solve scale factor problems.
We also looked at a set real architectural plans of a proposed addition to Pewee Valley Presbyterian Church. We looked at the extraordinary number of layers involved in archictect plans (it's about an inch thick with diagrams from multiple viewpoints and at multiple scales) and we talked about the way scale and proportion are indicated. I have another set of plans to show that are more complex of a science building at Lindsey Wilson College.
After our formal lessons and discussion, we returned to our scale drawings of Ms. Stark's room. She is a gracious host for a group of high energy girls at the end of a long school day. It seemed like they had a much easier time with this task after our work upstairs.
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