Area and Perimeter Project: City Trucks
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Description
BEEP! BEEP! This project-based learning (PBL) activity gives students the opportunity to bring together what they’ve learned about area and perimeter to create their own city truck. Students can design the trucks as big or small as they want. Once finished, students are asked to describe the area or perimeter of each section of their truck and decorate.
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DISCOVERY-BASED LEARNING
Discovery-based, hands-on learning activities gives students a break from traditional instruction, and has the ability to capture imaginations and make learning more meaningful. It also gives teachers a small break from instruction since students are given the freedom (and time) to explore.
SKILLS ASSESSED
Students will be required to find area/perimeter by counting square units, multiplying length x width, and adding 4 sides of a rectangle or square together. They will also find the area of rectilinear figures by adding the areas of two sections together.
THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:
- Student instruction sheets for each of the 3 trucks
- Usage tips for teachers
- Spare sheets in case students make a mistake
- Grid paper
- A picture model of each truck to show students as an example
- Digitally enabled (Easel Activities) version. Students will use the shapes, pen and/or highlight tools as they design.
USEFUL IN MANY WAYS!
This math activity can be used as:
- End-of-unit assessment / capstone project
- Math-based arts and craft project for art teachers
- Practice/enrichment for 3rd grade
- Review for 4th grade
- Bulletin board in the event you need to quickly put one up :)
- After school programs & tutoring activities
- Distance learning projects
- Winter/spring vacation math projects
- Parents who are homeschooling their children
- Summer school programs/summer bridge activities
- Substitute teacher activities
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ALIGNED WITH COMMON CORE STANDARDS
3.MD.C.5: Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement.
3.MD.C.5.a: A square with side length 1 unit, called "a unit square," is said to have "one square unit" of area, and can be used to measure area.
3.MD.C.5.b: A plane figure which can be covered without gaps or overlaps by n unit squares is said to have an area of n square units.
3.MD.C.6: Measure areas by counting unit squares (square cm, square m, square in, square ft, and improvised units).
3.MD.C.7: Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.
3.MD.C.7.b: Multiply side lengths to find areas of rectangles with whole-number side lengths in the context of solving real world and mathematical problems, and represent whole-number products as rectangular areas in mathematical reasoning
3.MD.C.7.d: Recognize area as additive. Find areas of rectilinear figures by decomposing them into non-overlapping rectangles and adding the areas of the non-overlapping parts, applying this technique to solve real world problems.
3.MD.8: Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an unknown side length, and exhibiting rectangles with the same perimeter and different areas or with the same area and different perimeters.
4.MD.A.3: Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real world and mathematical problems. For example, find the width of a rectangular room given the area of the flooring and the length, by viewing the area formula as a multiplication equation with an unknown factor.
