Your child will virtually stretch bands around pegs on a geoboard to make discoveries about area and perimeter.
Websites
Zoo Designer. In Mr. Nussbaum’s Zoo Designer game, your child will design enclosures for animals by calculating perimeter or area.
Shape Surveyor. In this FunBrain game, your child will calculate the perimeter or area of a rectangle.
Cubes. Have fun calculating the volume and surface area of different boxes in this Illuminations interactive game. (Surface area is not a 5th Grade TEK, the game can still be played without having to find the surface area of the shapes.)
Books
Perimeter, Area, and Volume: A Book of Dimensions by David Adler. This book introduces the concepts of perimeter, area, and volume.