<p>Engage students with this estimating area practice activity, where students design their own house by laying out furniture &amp; then determine the area by counting squares &amp; partial squares. Students will also answer critical thinking questions related to estimating, finding area, &amp; finding perimeter. Further, this packet includes activities for practice &amp; differentiation to meet your students’ needs.</p> <p><strong>Objective:</strong><br /> Students place furniture in a house &amp; determine the area by estimating the squares remaining on the grid. Students also determine the perimeter related to their designs &amp; answer questions related to area.</p> <p><strong>This Product Includes:</strong><br /> ✓ A house layout grid without rooms &amp; a house layout with predesigned rooms for students to estimate the area &amp; perimeter<br /> ✓ Furniture to cut out and glue into place in both color versions &amp; black/white versions<br /> ✓ Versions in feet, meters, &amp; generic “units”<br /> ✓ Critical thinking questions related to finding area, estimating area, estimating area of partial squares, &amp; perimeter<br /> ✓ Area and Perimeter worksheets that contain 4 houses with pre-filled furniture &amp; rooms differentiated to meet your students’ needs - varying in complexity. For example, House A is just one room with a large grid layout. House D is more complex with multiple rooms, multiple pieces of furniture, slanted furniture, &amp; many partial pieces of squares.</p> <p><strong>With This Product You’ll Get:</strong><br /> ✓ Questions to accompany these houses to use as review, for small group, for whole group, for centers, for homework, for modeling, or for practice.<br /> ✓ Answer keys and rubric<br /> ✓ A Google Slides version so that you can complete it digitally if you prefer! Perfect for distance learning and the Google Classroom!</p>