Year 6 Perimeter & Area

This exciting outdoor unit for Year 6 makes teaching area, perimeter, and volume active, creative, and practical. With lessons that include building sculptures, designing artwork, and creating scale models, children apply key maths skills in real-life contexts while collaborating, problem-solving, and having fun outside the classroom.

Lesson Plans

Solving practical problems involving area

In this practical outdoor lesson, children will solve problems involving the area and perimeter of rectangles. They will engage in an active starter which uses non standard units and also use their knowledge of area and perimeter to find missing lengths.

Learning objective:

To calculate the area and perimeter of rectangles.

Finding the area of triangles and parallelograms

In this low preparation, outdoor lesson, children will work out the formula for finding the area of a triangle and a parallelogram. They will create several of these shapes and use the formulas to calculate the areas. In addition, they will revise key shape knowledge and vocabulary whilst setting practical challenges for each other!

Learning objective:

To find the area of triangles and parallelograms.

Calculating the area and perimeter of a variety of shapes

Combine art and maths with this creative outdoor lesson. Your children will explore a variety of artwork involving shapes and get creative to design their own, while calculating the area and perimeter of 2D shapes within it. This is an easy to resource, engaging lesson.

Learning objective:

To calculate the area and perimeter of rectangles, parallelograms and triangles.

Calculating the volume of shapes

In this creative outdoor lesson, children will estimate and calculate the volume of cubes and cuboids using a variety of items. They will work collaboratively to create sculptures and find their volumes in addition to solving practical problems.

Learning objective:

To calculate the volume of 3D shapes.

Investigating area, perimeter and volume

Have your children apply their knowledge and understanding of area, perimeter and volume in a real life context outside! The focus of this lesson involves children designing and creating a scale model of a structure needed in the school grounds, while using all their knowledge from this unit to complete it.

Learning objective:

To investigate area, perimeter and volume.

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