Fourth graders recently finished creating the floor plans
for their dream house project, a fun project that was an extension of our study
of area and perimeter. The guidelines
set forth were that each house needed to have between six and eight rooms,
include two composite shapes and have a kitchen, a bathroom and a bedroom.
We recently learned how to find the area and perimeter of
composite shapes (a figure that can be divided into two or more basic shapes,
such as squares or rectangles) and we wanted the students to apply what they
had learned. We also stressed the
importance of knowing your multiplication facts when finding the area of a
rectangle or square because it is much easier to multiply length by width than
to count each square on grid paper!
Students planned out their houses and created their
blueprints on grid paper, and then they found the area and perimeter of each
room. There was a lot of creativity in
terms of the types of rooms included; there was everything from horse stables
to a water park and lazy river to a virtual reality room. It was great to see how the students
expressed their personalities while also practicing the math skills of finding
area and perimeter.
The dream house projects will soon be hanging up in the
hallway by the fourth grade rooms, so make sure to stop by and check them out!
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