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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Measuring Lava Flow

For Teachers 7th - 9th
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...
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Lesson Plan
National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Thiebaud's Cake Math (Intermediate Version)

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Using the painting, Cakes by artist Wayne Thiebaud, learners will learn and practice math concepts of volume and surface area. Then they will create a bold cake painting, either online or with classroom art materials.
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Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: The Cylinder Problem: Middle School Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson offers an interesting, hands-on experience for middle school students studying cylinders. Students will create cylinders, and measure and compare their volumes.
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Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Volume Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this online calculator to calculate the volume of geometric solids including a capsule, cone, frustum, cube, cylinder, hemisphere, pyramid, rectangular prism, sphere, and spherical cap.
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Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Triangular Prism Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
This calculator finds the volume, surface area, and height of a triangular prism. Surface area calculations include top, bottom, lateral sides, and total surface area. Height is calculated from a known volume or lateral surface.
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Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Sphere Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
This online calculator will calculate the 3 unknown values of a sphere given any 1 known variable including radius r, surface area A, volume V and circumference C. It will also give the answers for volume, surface area, and circumference...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Math2.org: Areas, Volumes, Surface Areas

For Students 9th - 10th
This personal site from Math2.org gives formulas for the area, volumes and surface areas of various shapes. Also provides diagrams.
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Study Guide
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Cones

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
What is a cone? Find a definition, example images, and formulas for determining volume and surface area.
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Handout
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Cylinder

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The resource investigates the cylinder. Students learn about surface area, volume, and different types of cylinders. Definitions, animations, formulas, and practice questions are included.
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Study Guide
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Prisms

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
What is a prism? Find a good definition and several example images, as well as formulas for finding the volume and surface area of a prism given measurements of its base and height.
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Controlling Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on comparing the reaction rate of chemical reactions with different surface areas.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Figure It Out

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is an Internet-based (online) and group discussion lesson. Students will learn the formulas for surface area and volume of cylinders and cones. Students should have previously learned how to determine the area for a circle; however,...
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Activity
Analyze Math

Analyze Math: Pyramid Problems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The geometry tutorial discusses the surface area and volume of a pyramid. The activity has several examples with detailed solutions.
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Handout
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Cone

For Students 6th - 8th
Use this interactive tool to explore cones. Change the height and the radius to see how these affect the cone. There is also the option of making an oblique cone. Properties of a cone are discussed, how to use formulas to calculate the...
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Handout
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Prism

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Use this interactive tool to explore prisms. Change the height and the shape of the base to see how these affect the prism. There are also several additional options, e.g., making it oblique or transparent. Properties of a prism are...
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Activity
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Spinning Square Pyramid

For Students 6th - 8th
Students learn about the properties of a square-based pyramid and the formulas for surface area and volume. The learning resource consists of facts and an interactive spinning square pyramid. Includes several multiple-choice questions.
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Handout
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Prisms

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Students learn about the properties of a prism, some different types, and the formulas for surface area and volume. Includes an interactive prism and multiple-choice questions.
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Handout
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Cylinder

For Students 6th - 8th
Learn how to find the volume and surface area of a cylinder by trying interactive examples. Includes definitions and links to related topics.
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Activity
Analyze Math

Analyze Math: Cone Problems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The geometry tutorial explores problems related to the surface area and volume of a cone. The activity has several examples with detailed solutions.
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Study Guide
Other

New York State Education Department: Seventh Grade Math, Book Two (2006) [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
Part two of two; The March 2006 7th grade Math test from the State of New York. The test is eight open-response questions dealing with topics such as data analysis (making graphs, Venn diagrams), measurement (unit conversions), and...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Area and Volume in Kapa Cloth Making

For Students 6th - 8th
A Hawaiian kapa artist explains how she uses area and measurements as part of her art-making process in this video from the Center for Asian American Media. In the accompanying classroom activity, students watch the video and learn how...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: New Boxes From Old

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students find the volume and surface area of a rectangular box (e.g., a cereal box), and then figure out how to convert that box into a new, cubical box having the same volume as the original. As they construct the new, cube-shaped box...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Boxes Go Mobile

For Teachers 6th - 8th
To display the results from the previous activity, each student designs and constructs a mobile that contains a duplicate of his or her original box, the new cube-shaped box of the same volume, the scraps that are left over from the...
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: A Comprehensive Printable List of Geometry Formulas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides a list of area and perimeter formulas for two-dimensional shapes and volume and surface area formulas for three-dimensional solids.

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