Let's buy a house!

Author names:  

Madison McCann, Yu-Wen Lien, Jonathan Pye, Sibel Arikoglu, Ogulcan Durmaz, Jillian Keng

For Teachers 

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Target Group

Students in 6th - 7th grade 

How this fits into a larger lesson or unit (optional!)

The lesson will be included as part of a unit on describing students’ immediate environment (rooms, furniture, prepositions, adjectives etc). In this lesson, students will describe a space in VR as if they were real-estate agents. In the following lesson, students will describe their own space, such as a lounge, bedroom etc.  

Main Learning Objectives: 

• SWBAT (Students Will Be Able To) use home/house vocabulary and describe their environment.

• SWBAT use third-person verbs to describe a room.

• SWBAT use prepositions/prepositional constructions to explain the location of objects (eg. furniture) within a space.

• SWBAT use adjectives to describe furniture in more detail. 

• SWBAT use the comparative and superlative to compare and contrast

Materials Needed: 

Online Flashcards (Pre-Task)

Spatial VR 

Space 1: Mountain Lounge

Space 2: Christmas Season

Space 3: House Lobby

Exit Slip/Ticket (Post-Task)

Activity Instructions

Pretask: Teacher helps students remember the vocabulary related to homes with a quick review. Online flashcards can be used.(2-3 minutes)

• https://quizlet.com/10236907/english-vocabulary-in-the-house-flash-cards/

Main task: Students will be assigned to three different groups. The groups will be real estate agents to describe and sell the assigned house. 

1. (6 min.) Then each group will be instructed to join one of the spaces chosen by the instructors. They will be given 5-6 minutes to explore their space and prepare for their following presentation. 

2. (6 min.) After exploration, the new groups will be mixed with people from three groups, and the agents from each group describe their houses to other group members, who are the possible customers. While the agents describe their spaces, they use laptops to show their space in Spatial (BYOS: Bring Your Own Space).

Post task (Exit Ticket): The students will act like customers and rank the houses as if they were going to buy one of them. They are expected to provide their reasons using comparisons/superlatives (INDIVIDUAL WORK, 5 mins.). 

Additional scaffolding instructions (optional)

Assessment Ideas (optional)

For Students 

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