Have you ever taught a lesson and just realized that it felt good? Like good, honest, real teaching? That is what this set of lessons on perimeter, area, and measurement felt like for me.
We started off by reviewing how to measure using a ruler. They all seemed to want to start measuring at the 1 instead of the 0! So we used a few task cards to practice measuring, as well as some worksheets. These little worksheets provided a great jumping off point for the kids. They also just love task cards. Not sure why they like them so much, but they do :)
Once I was sure that the students knew how to measure, we got to the creative part of this project. I asked students to draw a village that they might find in a snow globe. This could be any village they would like to draw, but there should be at least three rectangular structures. (Most students drew a Christmas village, since it was near winter break when we did this.)
After the village was drawn, they choose three to four of the buildings and measured them using the ruler. Next, they needed to find the area and perimeter of those houses. All of that was recorded on little slips that mimicked the bottom of the snow globe.
When the snow globe was ready to be assembled, the students cut the little bottom portions out and attached them to the snow globe like a flip book.
Then, I hung them all up on a winter themed bulletin board (with our Snowmen at Night responses) It looked really cool on the board!
If you would like the lesson plans and templates I used, you can get them here.
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