Kelly Hughes

FCS 4131

Instructional Design Project
Leesville Road High School is one of 28 public High Schools in the Wake
County Public School system. Located in the northern Raleigh district of North
Carolina, Leesville is a high performing high school with nationally recognized
academics and follows the two-semester block schedule.
LRHS has an average of 2,275 students in grades 9-12, and claims to be a safe,
supportive, engaging environment conducive to student learning. Seventy percent of
the students go to a four-year college after high school. The school mission statement
is, to inspire students love for learning and ensure that they have the necessary
skills to be self-reliant citizens who can think critically and solve future challenges.
LRHS teachers are held to a standard requiring more than just facilitating, but
to sparking each students interest to achieve academic success and pursue learning
beyond the classroom. The teachers at LRHS are not only challenged but also
supported by the community and leaders of the school. The teachers are even
supported through having their own webpages on the school website, where they
have the freedom to tell students and parents about their self and their courses.
Parents are encouraged to be an active role in the students lives. Parents are
valued and respected by the school, and community involvement is vital to the
schools success. Parent involvement includes: Booster Clubs in Band, Dance,
Performing Arts, Pride Athletics, and Pride Productions Drama. Parents can also be
involved in the PTSA (Parent Teacher Student Association at Leesville.
The departments at LRHS include: CTE, English, Fine Arts, Mathematics, Media
Center, Physical Ed, Science, Social Studies, Student Services, and World Languages.
Kelly Hughes
FCS 4131

Course: Teen Living
Unit: Living Environments
Competency: 13.00 C3P
Analyze how families and individuals manage living space for efficiency,
organization, and safety.
Objective: 13.01 C3P
Experiment ways to organize living space. (4 days)


Monday

Content Outline
13.01 Use and organization of space
A. Shared space
1. Rooms
2. Traffic patterns
3. Furniture arrangement

Learning Experiences:
1. Using a housing floor plan, discuss which rooms are shared and which rooms
are personal. Highlight the rooms in different colors and then explain to the
class your reasoning.
2. Working in groups, looks through magazines and identify different rooms and
their traffic patterns. Does the furniture seem to allow comfortable traffic
movement? What might you do differently?

Resources:
Magazines
Several different printed floor plans
Highlighters
Overhead Projector for instructional example











Kelly Hughes
FCS 4131

Course: Teen Living
Unit: Living Environments
Competency: 13.00 C3P
Analyze how families and individuals manage living space for efficiency,
organization, and safety.
Objective: 13.01 C3P
Experiment ways to organize living space. (4 days)


Tuesday

Content Outline
13.01 Use and organization of space
A. Shared space
1. Rooms
2. Traffic patterns
3. Furniture arrangement

Learning Experiences:
1. Draw a one-story floor plan for a young family of three. Label the distinctive
living spaces by coloring shared vs. personal spaces in different colored
pencils.
2. Draw the correct symbols for windows, closets, doors, walls, etc. on your floor
plan. After you have properly labeled everything, display your floor plan on
the bulletin board.

Resources:
Graph Paper
Pencils (colored and regular)
Markers
Rulers
Examples of one-story floor plans
Overhead Projector













Kelly Hughes
FCS 4131

Course: Teen Living
Unit: Living Environments
Competency: 13.00 C3P
Analyze how families and individuals manage living space for efficiency,
organization, and safety.
Objective: 13.01 C3P
Experiment ways to organize living space. (4 days)


Wednesday

Content Outline
B. Personal Space
1. Traffic Patterns
2. Furniture Arrangement

Learning Experiences:
1. You need to fill your 16x20 sq. ft. bonus room with furniture. A few items you
may think to include are: couch, chairs, coffee table, end tables, bookshelf,
entertainment center, etc. Your room is 16x20, find at least 5 furniture pieces
that will fit in your room by researching furniture online and fitting it to scale.
2. Find three different ways of rearranging your chosen furniture in your bonus
room, being mindful of traffic patterns.

Resources:
Computers/Internet Access
Online Room-Designer Program
Furniture Websites


















Kelly Hughes
FCS 4131

Course: Teen Living
Unit: Living Environments
Competency: 13.00 C3P
Analyze how families and individuals manage living space for efficiency,
organization, and safety.
Objective: 13.01 C3P
Experiment ways to organize living space. (4 days)


Thursday

Content Outline
1. Organizing Space
a. Organization Techniques
b. Storage Techniques

Learning Experiences:
1. Looking through magazines, note the storage options in various rooms. Write
down several types of furniture that allow extra storage.
2. Think about your bedroom at home, what are the storage options you have
right now? List some other storage options that might be helpful to you and
explain why.

Resources:
Magazines
PowerPoint/Overhead




















Kelly Hughes
FCS 4131

Course: Teen Living
Unit: Living Environments
Competency: 13.00 C3P
Analyze how families and individuals manage living space for efficiency,
organization, and safety.
Objective: 13.02 C3P
Rate home safety practices. (1 day)

Friday

Content Outline
13.02 Home safety
A. Accident prevention
1. Falls
2. Cuts
3. Fire
4. Poisoning
5. Electrical hazards
B. Equipment and appliance safety
1. Safety seals
2. Worn cords
3. Cord overload
4. Extension cords
5. Outlet covers
6. Electricity and water
C. Emergency procedures
1. Falls
2. Cuts
3. Fire
4. Poisoning
5. Electrical hazards
D. Technology/
Security systems

Learning Experiences:
1. Discuss and list the poisonous chemicals in cleaning products.
2. Recognize safety seals and dangerous electrical cords on various
appliances and equipment.
3. Work in groups and examine various emergency procedures for cases of
fire, cuts, poisoning, etc. Explain to the class how to properly follow
emergency procedures.
4. Research different types of security systems.
Resources:
Computers/Internet access
Powerpoint Lecture/Pictures of safety hazards
Cleaning Products and labels
Kelly Hughes
FCS 4131

Course: Teen Living
Unit: Living Environments
Competency: 14.00 C3P
Evaluate ways to maintain and enhance space to provide an aesthetically,
pleasing environment for all household members.
Objective: 14.01 C3
Assess the ways to maintain living space. (2 days)


Monday

Content Outline
14.01 Maintain
A. Care
1. Preventive maintenance
2. Corrective maintenance
B. Clean
1. Schedule/organize
2. Supplies
3. Techniques

Learning Experiences:
1. Make a chart categorizing various home maintenance chores into two main
categories (preventive and corrective care).
2. Develop a chore chart for household residents to follow in your own home.

Resources:
PowerPoint/Projector for lecture
Cleaning products (some natural, some chemical)
Supplies to make homemade cleaning product
Computers/Internet access
Poster board (chore charts)
Markers













Kelly Hughes
FCS 4131

Course: Teen Living
Unit: Living Environments
Competency: 14.00 C3P
Evaluate ways to maintain and enhance space to provide an aesthetically,
pleasing environment for all household members.
Objective: 14.01 C3
Assess the ways to maintain living space. (2 days)


Tuesday

Content Outline
B. Clean
1. Schedule/organize
2. Supplies
3. Techniques

Learning Experiences:
1. Talk about the benefits of recycling with a partner and come up with a
recycling plan for your home, share your ideas with the class.
2. Research the difference in natural vs. chemical cleaning products and their
benefits/usefulness.
3. Make an all-natural cleaning product for the classroom.

Resources:
PowerPoint/Projector for lecture
Computers/Internet Access
Supplies & recipes to make homemade cleaning product
- Window Cleaner: vinegar, natural liquid soap, water, spray bottles
- Dust Cleaner: lemon oil, pure lemon juice, olive oil, spray bottles
Paper Towels















Kelly Hughes
FCS 4131

Course: Teen Living
Unit: Living Environments
Competency: 14.00 C3P
Evaluate ways to maintain and enhance space to provide an aesthetically,
pleasing environment for all household members.
Objective: 14.02 C3P
Demonstrate ways to enhance living space. (4 days)


Wednesday

Content Outline
14.02. Enhance
A. Decorating your home/room

Learning Experiences:
1. Look through the magazines and pick out three rooms that are appealing to
you. Make a list of the things you appreciate about the rooms and discuss with
a neighbor.
2. Take the online style quiz at HGTV.com to find out your unique design style.
Share with the class your results and whether or not they seem accurate.
3. Using colored pencils, markers, or paint, develop your own color wheel.

Resources:
Video: HGTV program
Computers/Internet access
Magazines
Markers
Colored Pencils
Paint & paintbrushes
Paper















Kelly Hughes
FCS 4131

Course: Teen Living
Unit: Living Environments
Competency: 14.00 C3P
Evaluate ways to maintain and enhance space to provide an aesthetically,
pleasing environment for all household members.
Objective: 14.02 C3P
Demonstrate ways to enhance living space. (4 days)


Thursday

Content Outline
14.02 Enhance
A. Decorating your home/room
1. Design elements
2. Design principles

Learning Experiences:
1. As you are watching the HGTV program, write down any
information mentioning the principles or elements of design. Be
ready to share and discuss afterwards.
2. Using Magazines, find examples of the principles and elements of
design. Cut out pictures and glue them to a piece of construction
paper, labeling them as different elements and principles of design.
Switch with another student and check to see if you both agree.
Hang your work on the bulletin board.

Resources:
Video: HGTV program
Magazines
Construction paper
Scissors
Glue
Markers/pencils












Kelly Hughes
FCS 4131

Course: Teen Living
Unit: Living Environments
Competency: 14.00 C3P
Evaluate ways to maintain and enhance space to provide an aesthetically,
pleasing environment for all household members.
Objective: 14.02 C3P
Demonstrate ways to enhance living space. (4 days)


Friday

Content Outline
B. Accessories
1. Decorative
2. Functional

Learning Experiences:
1. In groups of two, estimate the amount of paint needed to cover the walls of
the classroom. Now pick a color and figure out the total cost (including
painting supplies).
2. Our classroom needs the following three items and we have a budget of
$65. Through online shopping, find the items we need for the best price
and the best look.
- Desk lamp
- Small area rug
- Coat rack

Resources:
Computer/Internet access
Color Swatch Booklet
Tape Measures
Calculators
Yard Stick/Rulers













Kelly Hughes
FCS 4131

Course: Teen Living
Unit: Living Environments
Competency: 14.00 C3P
Evaluate ways to maintain and enhance space to provide an aesthetically,
pleasing environment for all household members.
Objective: 14.02 C3P
Demonstrate ways to enhance living space. (4 days)


Monday

Content Outline
B. Accessories
1. Decorative
2. Functional

Learning Experiences:
1. Draw or print the floor plan of either your bedroom or living room at
home. Draw the furniture in the room to scale on a separate sheet of graph
paper. Cut out the furniture drawings and place them on your floor plan.
Organize furniture and design elements in several different eye-pleasing
arrangements.

Resources:
Graph Paper
Markers
Scissors



















Kelly Hughes
FCS 4131

Course: Teen Living
Unit: Living Environments
Competency: 14.00 C3P
Evaluate ways to maintain and enhance space to provide an aesthetically,
pleasing environment for all household members.
Objective: 14.03 C2
Discuss career opportunities in the interior design field. (1 day)


Tuesday

Content Outline
14.03 Careers in Interior Design
A. Career levels
1. Entry level
2. Intermediate level
3. Professional level
4. Entrepreneurial
B. Career opportunities
C. Job Qualifications
D. Education and training

Learning Experiences:
1. Research jobs available in the interior design field and the skills, education,
and job qualifications needed to succeed.
2. Guest speaker will come and share about career options and day-to-day
experience in Interior Design field. Think about and write down three
possible questions to ask him/her.

Resources:
Computer/Internet access
Power Point Presentation
Guest Speaker/Interior Designer