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Changing Gardens: A4 Grade AIG Class Project

This document outlines a 4th grade class project to design a garden for their school. Students will work in pairs to design rectangular gardens within a 36 foot perimeter using paperclips or grid paper as models. They will consider fence material options and record different rectangular design proposals that meet the conditions of having no gaps or overlaps and whole number side lengths. The goal is to submit a design for their teacher to approve for an Earth Day school garden planting.

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Changing Gardens: A4 Grade AIG Class Project

This document outlines a 4th grade class project to design a garden for their school. Students will work in pairs to design rectangular gardens within a 36 foot perimeter using paperclips or grid paper as models. They will consider fence material options and record different rectangular design proposals that meet the conditions of having no gaps or overlaps and whole number side lengths. The goal is to submit a design for their teacher to approve for an Earth Day school garden planting.

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Changing Gardens

A 4th grade AIG class project

Adapted from Navigating through Measurement in Grades 3-5, N. Anderson, et al, NCTM, 2005 and NCPIMS
What types of gardens have you planted?

What are some uses of gardens?

What tasks are involved in planting


a garden?
Task
For Earth Day, Mrs. Davis wants to plant a
rectangular garden on Town Creek’s campus.
She has requested that students submit a
design proposal. Your task is to design a
garden to submit for her approval.
Think about it….
• Do you think we might want to put a fence
around our garden?
• Why?
• What materials do people use to make garden
fences?
• Which fence do you think will be best for our
school’s garden?
• Why?
Explore
• You will have 36 feet of fencing to surround
and protect your garden. Determine the
different rectangles that have a perimeter of
36 feet.
Conditions
• The fence must have no gaps or overlaps.

• The length of each side of the rectangle must


be a whole number.
Instructions
• You and a partner will work together using paperclips as
a model for pieces of fencing (one paperclip is the
equivalent of one foot of fence).
• Transfer the rectangle created with paperclips to the
grid paper (one paperclip is the equivalent of one grid).
• One the Changing Gardens sheet, record as many
different rectangles as you can find
• Remember: You will have 36 feet of fencing to surround
and protect your garden. The fence must have no gaps
or overlaps. The length of each side of the rectangle
must be a whole number.

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