Allow your students to explore the pros and cons of different strategies used to find the area of rectangles. Use this as a stand alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for the Multiplication and Area in the Community Garden lesson.

In this lesson, your students will think about situations that require them to calculate area. Use it as a standalone lesson or as support to the What Is the Area of Your Classroom? lesson.

Tie into what they already know! Use money to teach fractions in this engaging lesson.

Introduce your students to area and teach them to use the formula Area = Length x Width within the context of real world problems.