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Better Lesson: Finding Arrays in an Irregular Polygon
Third graders decompose an irregular polygon into arrays to find the area.
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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 and Perimeter in Real Life Day 1
Third graders need time to connect area and perimeter. This two day exploration sets the stage for our short unit.
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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: Area & the Distributive Property
Third graders develop spatial reasoning about large areas through composing and decomposing rectangles to determine area.
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Better Lesson: Area of a Room: Basic Practice
Creating rooms with different dimensions but the same area improves understanding of multiplicative principles.
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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: Design a Space Using Area Models Day 1 and Day 2
Third graders use area models to find the total area of a store, home, or other real world space.
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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: 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.
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Better Lesson: Area and Perimeter in Real Life, Day 2
Third graders build models wherein the area remains the same, while changing perimeters.