Teaching Resource

Build Your Own Theme Park – Project

In Area and Perimeter ... Volume and Capacity

PDF | 17 pages|Grades: 4 - 6

A STEM project embedded in a real-world context.

This STEM project allows students to learn through designing their very own theme park.

In this project, the students have been given $50,000,000 to plan and create a fun and exciting theme park. Using the theme park catalog, a set of criteria, and a few templates provided in the resource, students must complete a budget sheet and create a map on isometric dot paper.

During the project, students will be required to make decisions about rides, park attractions, types of accommodation, and even food venues. They will then need to modify these according to their budget and the area and layout of their park.

This teaching resource includes:

a detailed, step-by-step description of the project for the students
a project rubric
a Theme Park Catalog
a budget sheet
isometric dot paper
theme park map templates
an extension activity.

We have included a separate download that includes a set of the map templates needed for this project.

Common Core

Common Core Curriculum alignment

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.MD.A.3
Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real world and mathematical problems. For example, find the width of a rectangular room given the area of the flooring and the length, by viewing the area formula as a multiplication equation wi...
In Grade 4 Standards for Mathematical Practice Measurement & Data Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NBT.B.4
Fluently add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.
In Grade 4 Standards for Mathematical Practice Operations in Base Ten Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.MD.C.5
Relate volume to the operations of multiplication and addition and solve real world and mathematical problems involving volume.
In Grade 5 Standards for Mathematical Practice Measurement & Data Geometric measurement: understand concepts of volume
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.MD.C.5.B
Apply the formulas V = l × w × h and V = b × h for rectangular prisms to find volumes of right rectangular prisms with whole-number edge lengths in the context of solving real world and mathematical problems.
In Grade 5 Standards for Mathematical Practice Measurement & Data Geometric measurement: understand concepts of volume CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.MD.C.5

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