Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating the Effects of Density and Volume of a Cartesian Diver
In this instructional activity, young scholars will investigate why the Cartesian diver dives and rises in a 2 liter bottle. They will also, through their own discovery, come up with a question and then change one variable and record...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Irregular Shaped Object Lab Test
Students will determine what an unknown substance is by finding mass, volume, displacement, and density of an object. Students will also create a report which will require them to read a graph, interpret data, calculate averages, and...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Shape Changing With the Cyber Squad
In this project, you will make 2-dimensional templates, called nets, that fold up into 3-dimensional (3-D) shapes. By making shapes of different sizes, you will be able to see how 3-D shapes change with size. In your findings you will...
Ohio State University
Betha Chemistry Tutorial
This site resource offers tutorials on the gas laws, balancing chemical equations, and quantum mechanics.
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University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Cubes [Pdf]
This task challenges a student to use knowledge of concepts of volume and its attributes to solve problems with rectangular prisms.
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Building Blocks [Pdf]
This task challenges students to demonstrate understanding of area, surface area and volume.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: How Much Water Is in a Fruit?
In this lesson students investigate and compare the amount of water in an orange and an apple. Student sheets are provided in English and in Spanish.
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Glass in the Door
Use your knowledge of volume and weight to solve this posed problem of finding the weight of a glass in a door.
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Ice Cream Cone
Is summer close yet? Think about this yummy ice cream treat in a mathematical way! A problem of volume is posed for an ice cream cone.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Molarity
What determines the concentration of a solution? Learn about the relationships between moles, liters, and molarity by adjusting the amount of solute and solution volume. Change solutes to compare different chemical compounds in water.
PBS
Pbs Mathline: Mystery Liquids Lesson Plan [Pdf]
Young scholars gather data from two mystery liquids to explore linear functions. Printable lesson.
PBS
Pbs Mathline: It Takes Ten Lesson Plan [Pdf]
Students rotate from station to station completing activities involving measurement weight, length, and volume using metric measurement.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Density
An interactive simulation that teaches about density, mass, and volume through explorations of mass and volume with different objects. This simulation can either be downloaded or played online and includes handouts, lesson plans, and...
Duke University
Calculating the Volume of a Vase
This site is a wonderful exercise for students with a Calculus base. The site gives an interactive drawing of a vase where the measurements of the diameter of the vase are at any point. The student then finds the volume using calculus....
Other
Tap Into Teen Minds: Prisms and Pyramids
A detailed set of tasks for investigating the volume of prisms and pyramids.
Other
Calculator.net: Volume Calculator
Use these calculator tools to find the volume, in your choice of units, of a sphere, cone, cube, cylinder, rectangular prism, capsule, ball cap, conical frustum, ellipsoid, or square pyramid. Includes a reference section listing formulas...
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
International System of Units: Si Base Units
This is the definitive source for information on SI base units, derived units, squares, cubes, luminosity, field strength and flux density.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Volume of Rectangular Prisms
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of how to find the volume of rectangular prisms. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Volume of Rectangular Prisms
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of finding the volume of rectangular prisms. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: The International System of Units
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students will begin to identify the seven base units of the International System of Units. They will understand the commonly used metric...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Ideal Gases and Gas Stoichiometry
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will learn the Ideal Gas Law, and know which of the different values for the ideal gas constant to use in a given...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Solution Concentration
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will calculate the concentration of solutions in units of molarity, and use molarity to calculate the dilutions of solutions.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Measuring Lava Flow
Students learn how volume, viscosity and slope are factors that affect the surface area that lava covers. Using clear transparency grids and liquid soap, students conduct experiments, make measurements and collect data. They also...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: How Dense Are You Lab
Students determine the mass and volume of soil samples and calculate the density of the soils. They use this information to determine the suitability of the soil to support a building foundation.