Google maps, RightMove and FloorPlanner

1. WEEK 1
Google Maps & Right Move

2. 1. GOOGLE MAPS
Satellite, distance and street view

3. Google Map Basics (1)
• Find the following places on Google Maps (use the snipping tool in Satellite
view to prove you have been there). You may need to type in the city!
• Great Pyramid of Giza, Cairo
• Hampton Court Maze, London
• Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid
• Epcot, Florida
• St Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow

4. Google Map Basics (2)
• Complete the following table
Start From Finish At Distance Car Time by car Distance walk Time walking
Gwyddelwern Betws Gwerfil
Goch
Vindolanda Trust Hexham
St Paul’s Cathedral Westminster Abbey
Cardiff City
Stadium
Millennium
Stadium
St Mark’s Basilica Rialto Bridge

5. Google Map Basics (3)
• Visit the following places and provide street view evidence that you have
been there:
• Reichstagsgebäude, Berlin
• Palace of Versailles, Versailles
• North Sydney Olympic Swimming Pool, Sydney
• Niagra Falls
• Tiananmen Square, Beijing

6. 2. RIGHT MOVE
Satellite, distance and street view

7. DRAW A SEARCH
• In this section, you will find a plot of empty land on which you are going to
build your dream house.
• Go to http://www.rightmove.co.uk/draw-a-search.html
• Find an area of Britain that you would like to live (use zoom in/out)
• Click on the map to draw an area
• Click on View Properties
• Adjust the location and criteria on the left (Property = Land; Price <£1mill)
• Click on the House and select Street View

8. Perfect Location
• Save into OneNote the details of your top 3 properties
• Now go back to google maps and try and research the area using Street and
Satellite views
• By the end of the lesson, make sure that you have chosen your land to
purchase
• Remember that it can be anywhere in the UK

9. WEEK 2
Blueprints

10. 3-4. BLUEPRINTS
Designing your dream house

11. Designing your dream house (1)
• For ideas, type “house plans” or “house blueprints” into Google images
• Now write down the following before starting your own plan
• Number of floors
• Number of bedrooms
• Number of bathrooms
• List of other rooms
• Number of garages
• Garden features

12. Designing your dream house (2)
• Spend the rest of the lesson designing your new home
• Make sure that the final plans are ready for next lesson
• You must include measurements for room lengths x widths x height

13. WEEKS 3-4
Building

14. 5. FLOORPLANNER
Bringing your new home to life

15. Floorplanner
• Go to
http://floorplanner.c
om and create a new
account with school
email
• This video has been
created by another
teacher for her
students

16. Floorplanner – Official Videos
• The floorplanner channel is
http://www.youtube.com/user/Floorplanner

17. 6-8. BUILDING
Building your dream house

18. Points to remember
• Include your dimensions
• Match your building to your blueprints
• Make sure that you SAVE your work REGULARLY!
• Make sure furniture is to scale
• Regularly check that the 3D view works
• Refer to floorplanner channel for help
• Use the floorplanner tutorial for help
http://floorplanner.com/demo#tutorial

19. WEEK 5
Feedback & Improvements

20. 9-10. IMPROVING
Finishing your dream house

21. Feedback & Improvements
• Use this week to give feedback
from at least two of your class
• Make sure that the comments
have been added to OneNote
• Ensure that you provide feedback
to at least two of your class
• Ensure that your feedback is
added into their OneNote

22. WEEK 6
Logo Research & Design

23. 11. LOGO
Logo research and draft design

24. Logo Research
• Add the logos for the following
estate agents to your notes:
• Moginie James
• Jeffrey Ross
• Morgan Lloyd Williams
• Savills
• Peter Alan
• Kelvin Francis
• Thomas George
• Chris John
• Type up your thoughts about the
logos including but not limited to:
• Colours
• Similarities
• Differences
• Effectiveness
• Obvious as an estate agent
• Formal?
• Professional?

25. Logo Design
• Based on your previous research, sketch out a design for your own logo
• Make sure that you get and provide evidence of feedback received
• Based on feedback, improve your logo design.

26. 12. LOGO
Completing your final design

27. Finishing your logo
• Try more than one of the following websites to create your logo:
• http://www.designmantic.com
• http://www.flamingtext.co.uk/logos
• http://www.tweak.com/customize-logo.htm
• http://logotypecreator.com/
• Make sure that you give and receive feedback with at least two others

28. WEEK 7
Business Stationery

29. 13. Business Card &
Letterhead
Preparing to market your house

30. Creating a business card
• Type “business cards” into Google
images to see what business cards
look like
• Sketch out a design for your
business card
• Using MS Publisher create your
own business card (use a template
if you wish)

31. Creating a letterhead
• Type “letterheads” into Google
images to see what letterheads look
like
• Sketch out a design for your
letterhead
• Using MS Publisher create your own
letterhead (use a template if you
wish)

32. 14. HOUSE DETAILS
Preparing the fine details

33. Researching marketing literature
• Type in “House brochure” into Google images to see what others have
included
• Draft a description of the outside areas of your house (Street View)
• Draft a description of each of your rooms, including dimensions
• Take a screen print using floorplanner to show what your rooms look like

34. WEEK 8
House Brochure

35. House Brochure
• Use two lessons to create and
finish your House Brochure
• Make sure that you get and give
feedback for at least two others
• Make sure feedback is recorded