This post provides a conceptual approach to understanding perimeter and area.
Overview
Students are prompted to build an rectangular animal pen for some farm animals. The number of fences represents the perimeter. The number of squared segments of grass inside the pen represents the area.
Google Jamboard
The slides are presented below. This video shows how the manipulatives work.
Access to Jamboard.
Here is a link to the Jamboard. Need to make a copy to use it.
