Lesson Plan
Finding Area: Furnishing A Room
Let your students decorate their own room with this lesson that has them use area to place furniture in a room.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to find the area of rectangles and squares.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Tell students that today they are going to be interior decorators.
- Explain to students that they will work with a partner to furnish a room.
- Students will create polygons to furnish a room and be asked to calculate the area for each item.
Beginning
- Define the following terms in students' home languages (L1) and in English (L2): "interior decorator," "furnish," "polygon," and "calculate." Provide an image when applicable.
Intermediate
- Have students talk to a partner regarding their understanding of the meaning of the term "interior decorator" to gather their background knowledge on the concept. Display the sentence stem to guide them as they converse: "An interior decorator's job is to..."