Area Lesson Plans. Use this lesson on its own or as support for the lesson the case of the missing rectangle side. 4th grade area lesson plans.
Give out a copy of this picture to pairs of students to discuss. Roll for the area and perimeter and name area and perimeter. Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real world and mathematical problems.
Allow your students to explore the pros and cons of different strategies used to find the area of rectangles.
To be able to break shapes down into rectangles to calculate their areas. Use this as a stand alone lesson or as a pre lesson for the multiplication and area in the community garden lesson. Area of rectangles squares lesson plan learning objective. Each square on your graph paper should represent one square foot which will enable students to just count the squares to check their work.
