Create a Hogwarts Floor Plan Grade Levels: 3 - 8 Students will
learn about the concept of scale and other mapping skills as
they create a floor plan of Hogwarts School. - Graph paper -
Make sure that students have a good understanding of the terms
floor plan, bird's eye view, and scale before they start drawing
any floor plans. - A floor plan is a diagram of one room,
apartment, or entire floor of a building, usually drawn to scale
- For a bird's eye view explain that students will be drawing a
map of Hogwarts as if they are looking at it from above. - Scale
is the ratio between the size of something and a representation
of it. - Scale can be demonstrated by measuring the perimeter of
your classroom with a yard stick and then converting those
measurements into squares on a piece of graph paper. Show
students that one foot could equal one square on the graph
paper, if that's the scale they choose. - Ask each student to
practice this by drawing a bird's eye view of the classroom (on
graph paper) using the same