Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Volume of Composite Three-Dimensional Objects

For Teachers 7th Standards
Most objects have irregular dimensions — you have to find them! Teach your class how to find the volume of composite objects that can be decomposed into prisms. Objects get increasingly more complex as the lesson progresses.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A4 Containers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders determine which container made from a single sheet of paper has the greatest volume. They look the solutions made by three different students before working on their own examples.