House Project- Area and Perimeter

Hopewell Area SD: Remote Instruction on Thursday, May 1, 2025

Due to ongoing storm restoration efforts in the community and at district schools, the Hopewell Area School District will operate all schools under a Flexible Instruction Day (FID) model with students learning remotely from home on Thursday, May 1, 2025. There will be no district transportation provided, and after-school and evening activities will take place as scheduled.

The district truly understands that some students may have varying needs associated with power outages or Internet loss, so please communicate needs with teachers and principals. They will be willing to assist as needed. With an in-service day and prom happening on Friday (May 2), students will next return to school on Monday, May 5. So, the extra day in remote learning will yield multiple days of recovery efforts to, hopefully, return all students to regular in-person schooling on Monday, May 5. 
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House Project- Area and Perimeter

     My fourth grade students recently completed an exploration of area and perimeter.  To extend their understanding of those concepts, my student teachers and I designed a project in which they would need to draw a blueprint of the main floor of a house that was to have a square footage between 1000-1500, two bedrooms with one at least 120 square feet, assign a scale value for measuring purposes, and label each room with the respective area and perimeter.
     Students then constructed scale models of their home.  We have various forms of construction media ranging from marshmallows, legos, and simple cardboard.  The students exceeded expectations with this project!  Below are some pictures of the models as well as some blueprint examples.  Enjoy!
 
The following Common Core Mathematical Practices were met in this assignment:
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively
4. Model with mathematics
5. Use appropriate tools strategically
6. Attend to precision
 
Student Blueprint Example
Student Blueprint Example
Student Blueprint Example
Student Blueprint Example
Student Blueprint Example
Student Blueprint Example
Student Blueprint Example
Student Blueprint Example
Student Blueprint Example
Student Blueprint Example
Student Blueprint Example
Student Blueprint Example
Student Blueprint Example
Student Blueprint Example
Student Blueprint Example
Student Blueprint Example
Student Blueprint Example
Student Blueprint Example
Student Blueprint
Student Blueprint
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