GRADE: 3-5 / TIME: 2 Blocks
Flip It & Find It: Area with Boxes (2 pages + grid)
Bring math to life with this creative, real-world activity that gets students thinking, measuring, and discovering! In Flip It & Find It, students transform an ordinary cardboard box from home into a colorful geometric investigation. By flipping the box inside out, drawing a 1 cm² grid, and identifying matching areas, students will explore the concept that rectangles and squares have opposite sides with equal area.
This lesson reinforces area, measurement, and spatial reasoning while promoting creativity, collaboration, and real-world connections. Perfect for centers, whole class, or small group work!
What’s Included:
Step-by-step student checklist
Visual instructions for setup and grid work
Reflection questions to deepen understanding
Assessment rubric using a proficiency scale
TIP: To adapt for students, use the grid provided and allows students to glue a grid on instead. By using a smaller box, students have less calculating and colouring to do!
Extension: For your early finishers, have them calculate and record the perimeter of each shape. Ask them to compare them and to think about why certain perimeters are the same size as others.
GRADE: 3-5 / TIME: 2 Blocks
Flip It & Find It: Area with Boxes (2 pages + grid)
Bring math to life with this creative, real-world activity that gets students thinking, measuring, and discovering! In Flip It & Find It, students transform an ordinary cardboard box from home into a colorful geometric investigation. By flipping the box inside out, drawing a 1 cm² grid, and identifying matching areas, students will explore the concept that rectangles and squares have opposite sides with equal area.
This lesson reinforces area, measurement, and spatial reasoning while promoting creativity, collaboration, and real-world connections. Perfect for centers, whole class, or small group work!
What’s Included:
Step-by-step student checklist
Visual instructions for setup and grid work
Reflection questions to deepen understanding
Assessment rubric using a proficiency scale
TIP: To adapt for students, use the grid provided and allows students to glue a grid on instead. By using a smaller box, students have less calculating and colouring to do!
Extension: For your early finishers, have them calculate and record the perimeter of each shape. Ask them to compare them and to think about why certain perimeters are the same size as others.
