Design a Tour Bus: High School Lesson

Unit Description:

FLATE, the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center for Manufacturing, has developed a series of “Made in Florida” lesson plans to prepare students for careers in manufacturing. These Lesson Plans are intended to enrich science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) classes and provide your students with real world scenarios relevant to manufacturers throughout Florida. 

Each model lesson includes materials needed to “engage students with authentic and sometimes unresolved challenges faced by manufacturing companies today.” 

Lesson Description:

This lesson from FLATE focuses on the concepts of scaling, mechanical drawings, and engineering design in the design of a tour bus. In considering this topic, students will: 1) Design the interior layout of a luxury motor coach according to assignment constraints and specifications, 2) produce a hand-drawn sketch, 3) Produce an innovative design using CAD, and 4) Produce accurate, scaled drawings on paper media.

The completion of the lesson in full takes two 90-minute class periods. Resources available as part of this lesson include a Teacher Lesson Plan, a Teacher Lesson Presentation, a Student Worksheet, a Teacher Grading Rubric, and a Company Fact Sheet.  Also included are Sketch & Design Game Pieces and Sketch & Design Graph Paper.

For orientation purposes, viewers should begin with the ‘Teacher Lesson Plan’ PDF document, which offers a description of the lesson as well as an overview of topics covered and the intended audience.

Lesson Contents:

The Lesson Plan document includes learning objectives, targeted subject areas and manufacturing levels, relevant Florida Department of Education Sunshine-Standards, required materials and supplies, a detailed sequence for both teacher presentation and student completion of the lesson, a section for discussion and review, and a section for extensions and additional resources.

The PowerPoint presentation provides an introduction to the activity, specifications for the tour bus design activity, and examples that follow those specifications.

The four page Student Worksheet, designed to be used throughout the multi-day lesson, includes an introduction to the design scenario, instructions for activities, and tables and diagrams necessary to complete the activities. Additional materials to complete the activities, the Sketch & Design Game Pieces and Sketch & Design Graph Paper, are also included as separate documents.

The Teacher Grading Rubric provides areas for the first design, the final design,and student participation.

The Company Information Fact Sheet provides general information about Featherlite Coaches, Inc., including their manufacturing process and education level and position requirements for students interested in the company.

Below is a list of the files contained within the .zip attachment. The size of each file is included in parenthesis.

Design a Tour Bus (7 files, 4 MB)

• Teacher Lesson Plan (FEATHERLITE- Teacher Lesson Plan HS.doc 291KB)
• Teacher Lesson Presentation (FEATHERLITE- Teachers Lesson Guide Presentation HS.ppt 1.5MB)
• Student Worksheet (FEATHERLITE-Student Worksheet HS.doc 396KB)
• Teacher Grading Rubric (FEATHERLITE-Teacher Grading Rubric HS.docx 292KB)
• Company Fact Sheet (FEATHERLITE- Company Fact Sheet HS.doc 283KB)
• Sketch & Design Game Pieces (FEATHERLITE- SKetch & Design Game Pieces HS.pptx 1.1MB)
• Sketch & Design Graph Paper (FEATHERLITE- Sketch & Design Graph Paper HS.pptx 182KB)