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Better Lesson: Filling in the Middle
Students use both area and perimeter to work with geometric shapes.
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Better Lesson: Area as an Architect (Stations Day 4 & Discussion)
Third graders use their understanding of area to have a meaningful debate about a building plan.
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Better Lesson: Area Assessment
Area questions can be asked multiple ways and the area can be found by using different strategies.
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Better Lesson: Area of Names
Creating names with block letters students calculate area of irregular shapes. This activity also make a real world application to the popular video game Minecraft.
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Better Lesson: Designing a Restaurant
Understanding area and perimeter can help children work on solutions to very important, real world problems.
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Better Lesson: Using Area as an Architect (Stations Day 1)
In this multi-day activity, 3rd graders make 3 different models of an orphanage floor plan using Google Drawing, Virtual Graph paper, and a construction of rectilinear shapes, to calculate the area of each room using units square.
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Better Lesson: Polygons: Introduction & Investigation
Interacting with polygons and testing the definitions can be engaging, fun and build a powerful, individualized understanding.
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Better Lesson: Measuring Our Classroom's Perimeter and Area!
Connect new measurement knowledge and skills to the students' immediate environment.
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Better Lesson: Great Buildings of the World: Create Your Own! (Day 1)
Creating their own building is a hands-on, minds-on way for students to explore how polygons create 3D solids.
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Better Lesson: How Much Paint Do We Need?
This lesson is a real world task that combines many skills the students have learned throughout the school year.
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Better Lesson: Design Your Dream House Day 2
Area comes alive when you design your own space.
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Better Lesson: Area With Halves
Fractions can be used to understand halves of a unit square.
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Better Lesson: Length X Width
Breaking figures into smaller squares and rectangles allows me to multiply to find the area
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Better Lesson: What Is Area?
Area is the concept of covering a region with "unit squares".
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Better Lesson: Building a Dog Kennel Day 3
Third graders will be able to use strategies to solve real-world problems involving area and perimeter.
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Better Lesson: Building a Dog Kennel Day 1
Third graders will be able to use strategies to solve real-world problems involving area and perimeter.