We started with several "buildings" labeled A-F. The children cut 2 inch pink strips for measuring the perimeter and 4 inch squares for measuring the area of each building. Each group had a basket of strips, a basket of squares, one pencil and one recording sheet.To make sure the measurements were as close as possible, children were given wider 2 inch strips which they then cut into "toothpick" size strips. I also copied inch graph paper with darker lines to show 4 square inches. Those sheets were copied on different colors for each group so they could keep their materials separate from other groups.
Kids used 2 inch strips to measure the perimeter of each "building".
Counting by 4's to figure out the area in square inches.
Recording the findings.Recording sheet was simply
Group _____
Building A
Area - ________ square inches
Building A
Area - ________ square inches
Perimeter - _______inches
Building B
Area - ________ square inches
Perimeter - _______inches
...... through Building F
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