Comments on: Architecture STEM Project: Build an Area and Perimeter City https://teachbesideme.com/architecture-stem-area-and-perimeter-city/ Educate Creatively- Hands-on teaching ideas Tue, 12 May 2026 12:36:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: DellaC https://teachbesideme.com/architecture-stem-area-and-perimeter-city/#comment-630864 Wed, 14 Apr 2021 20:26:16 +0000 https://teachbesideme.com/?p=15971#comment-630864 A wonder project. Inspired by your idea, I used this with a middle school pandemic learning pod math class. I let the students pick task cards such as, “Create a 5-story building with a perimeter of 24 units”, “Create a building with a volume of 128 cubic units” or “Create a building with a 48 square unit footprint”. I had a couple of harder (I thought) task cards, such as “Create a regular octagonal museum with 32 unit perimeter”, but the kids figured these out in a snap. What I hadn’t anticipated with these task cards was all the factoring practice the kids had to do to figure out the various possible designs from which to pick. It was handy to have a long, straight-sided box on hand to help them figure out the orientation of their buildings: Where will the front entrance be? Do you want it to be tall or squat? The box can be rotated to help show them the possibilities.

Thank you for sharing this creative idea.

]]> By: maryanne https://teachbesideme.com/architecture-stem-area-and-perimeter-city/#comment-518728 Sun, 27 Oct 2019 04:39:14 +0000 https://teachbesideme.com/?p=15971#comment-518728 What a fantastic way to bring geography to life!

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