In this open-ended investigation, students use visualizing skill and work systematically to explore surface area. Learners use linking cubes to build three-dimensional objects with exactly 28 faces exposed. Ideas for implementation, extension and support are included.

This is an interactive 3rd grade lesson plan to reinforce 3.MD.5, 3.MD.6, and 3.MD.7 the concept of area. This lesson will most likely span over the course of a couple of days. Thumbnail "farm scene" by Christian Collins, Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. 

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about area in grid.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about perimeter in grid.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about perimeter of squares and rectangles.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders an overview of area and perimeter.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about given the perimeter, find the side length and area - squares.

Create your own shapes using colorful blocks and explore the relationship between perimeter and area. Compare the area and perimeter of two shapes side-by-side. Challenge yourself in the game screen to build shapes or find the area of funky figures. Try to collect lots of stars!

Build rectangles of various sizes and relate multiplication to area. Discover new strategies for multiplying algebraic expressions. Use the game screen to test your multiplication and factoring skills!

This activity reinforces the concepts of area and perimeter and their independent relationship. Students analyze and compose shapes made from unit squares that satisfy area and perimeter specifications. Ideas for implementation, extension and support are included along with printable sheets and shape cards.

This activity is intended to assess your 3rd grade students' ability to find area and perimeter of rectangles and squares. Students will be creating a robot using Google Drawing. They will then find the area and perimeter of each piece of the robot. Once they have found the area and perimeter for each shape in their robot, students will calculate the total area and perimeter of the robot. Photo by Eric Krull on Unsplash

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders an overview of area of squares and rectangles - word problems.

This three-act math task utilizes videos and questioning to help students explore area with unit fractions.

This lesson plan is intended to support students as their learn how to create 2 different shapes with the same area, but a different perimeter, or vice versa. The lesson plan has a link to a resource online found through eMedia. 

The purpose of this task is to strengthen students' understanding of area. It could be assigned in class to individuals or small groups or given as a homework exercise to generate interesting discussions the following day. The relatively high levels of complexity and technical demand enhance its instructional value.

Use this three act task to get students thinking about surface area. Extend the task to create a method/formula for surface area of a prism.

Use this three act task to have students make predictions and determine which area is the greatest.

Explore size estimation in one, two and three dimensions! Multiple levels of difficulty allow for progressive skill improvement.

This series of problems requires students to apply their knowledge of area and perimeter to find the optimal area given a specified amount of fencing. The problems progress in difficulty as new elements are added to the situation, therefore changing the outcome. This page includes tips for getting started, solution, teachers resource page, and a printable problem page.

This activity gives students the chance to explore area and perimeter in a problem solving setting. Nine differently-sized squares need to be tiled into a rectangular frame of unknown proportions. Three prompts of solving strategies are provided. Ideas for implementation, extension and support are included along with a printable sheet of the problem.