Design a Gingerbread House Christmas Math Activity
Explore three dimensional nets and objects with this activity that encourages creativity and math combined. Students will learn about, create and construct nets as part of a house design and then will use their art skills to convert it into a gingerbread house.
This product includes:
- a complete lesson plan for teachers explaining each step of creating this project with tips for differentiation or modifications
- papier mâché recipe and tricks for making it manageable
- student planning pages
- student checklists
- assessment rubrics
- photograph examples of the finished projects
- student reflection pages
- net patterns
- Ninja Note: This activity can be done with NO REFERENCE TO CHRISTMAS for your students that don't celebrate or observe Christmas. Houses can be decorated with anything and there is a complete set of pages that don't reference a gingerbread house.
This activity has been tested with five different groups of grade five students and is a HUGE hit.
This task aligns with:
- Alberta Program of Studies for Grade 4 Math: Shape & Space
This task supports:
- any lesson covering three dimensional objects
Please review the PREVIEW to get an idea of what comes in the package.
This product is designed to support our Representing Numbers Interactive Math Notebook for Grade 4-5 bundle. You might be interested in some of our other Math products.
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