Dream Apartment Planning with IKEA Essentials
A hands-on planning packet for 11th grade and up that asks students to build a dream board and budget checklist for kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom essentials while exploring IKEA's website and showroom. It builds budgeting, product comparison, and visual planning skills within a $1,000 limit, with a tree map for sorting items by room.
“we are going to IKEA and are going to be touring the show rooms. I want the students to start dreaming about what their small apartment could look like. create a dream board activity for student to explore IKEA's website. make a checklist for kitchen essentials, bathroom essentials, and bedroom essentials.”
Teacher Guide & Tips
- Use this as a pre-tour or in-tour activity during your IKEA visit, letting students browse the showroom or website and record items on the checklist with real prices.
- Discussion question: Which items would you prioritize if you could only afford half of your $1,000 budget, and why?
- Scaffold for struggling readers or planners: Pair students and give each pair one room category to start, then combine findings into the full tree map.
- Extension for advanced students: Ask them to justify trade-offs between style, function, and cost in a short written reflection on their final dream board.
- Estimated time: Roughly 45 to 60 minutes, including browsing, filling in the checklist, and sorting items into the tree map.
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Try Diffit for free“we are going to IKEA and are going to be touring the show rooms. I want the students to start dreaming about what their small apartment could look like. create a dream board activity for student to explore IKEA's website. make a checklist for kitchen essentials, bathroom essentials, and bedroom essentials.”
Teacher Guide & Tips
- Use this as a pre-tour or in-tour activity during your IKEA visit, letting students browse the showroom or website and record items on the checklist with real prices.
- Discussion question: Which items would you prioritize if you could only afford half of your $1,000 budget, and why?
- Scaffold for struggling readers or planners: Pair students and give each pair one room category to start, then combine findings into the full tree map.
- Extension for advanced students: Ask them to justify trade-offs between style, function, and cost in a short written reflection on their final dream board.
- Estimated time: Roughly 45 to 60 minutes, including browsing, filling in the checklist, and sorting items into the tree map.
Dream Apartment Planning with IKEA Essentials
A hands-on planning packet for 11th grade and up that asks students to build a dream board and budget checklist for kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom essentials while exploring IKEA's website and showroom. It builds budgeting, product comparison, and visual planning skills within a $1,000 limit, with a tree map for sorting items by room.
What is Diffit?
Teachers use Diffit to get quality materials for their unique classrooms. Adjust difficulty, add scaffolds, or change the topic to get started.
Try Diffit for free