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Design a Zoo

By Platform Administrator · Submitted Sep 30, 2026

Content Area
Mathematics
Grade
3

Students will move into the role of a zoo architect and work on a team with 2 to 3 other architects to create a zoo that will pass guidelines for animal enclosures. Each animal has specific area and perimeter guidelines based on its size and what it needs in order to survive. Students design 2-3 enclosures individually, but then come back together with their group and may need to change the enclosure sizes in order to fit everything together following the zoo requirements. Finally, again individually, students write or record a video explaining their group's zoo design and any changes that they had to make to each individual animal enclosure.

MA Standards

3.MD.D.8
Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an unknown side length, and exhibiting rectangles with the same perimeter and different areas or with the same area and different perimeters.
SL.3.4
Report on a topic, text, or solution to a mathematical problem, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace and using appropriate vocabulary. (See grade 3 Language Standards 4-6 for specific expectations regarding vocabulary.)

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