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Sprk: Sphero Hydro Hypothesis Stem Challenge [Pdf]
SPRK STEM challenges are fun, interactive activities that challenge students to use creativity and team-work to move through simple steps of the design process in order to build Sphero-based creations. The Hydro-hypothesis challenge...
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Rectangular Prism Calculator
This site provides an online rectangular prism calculator. Using any three of the six attributes (length, width, height, surface area, volume or diagonal), students can calculate the other three attributes. The calculator allows students...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Fuel Mystery Dis Solved!
In this activity, students investigate the simulated use of solid rocket fuel by using an antacid tablet. Students observe the effect that surface area and temperature has on chemical reactions. Also, students compare the reaction time...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Boxes Go Mobile
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...
Paul Dawkins
Paul's Online Notes: Calculus Ii: Applications of Integrals
The resource examines applications of integration. Topics investigated are arc length, surface area, center of mass, hydrostatic pressure, and probability density functions. Class notes, definitions, and examples with detailed solutions...
Paul Dawkins
Paul's Online Notes: Calculus Iii: Multiple Integrals
The resource examines applications of partial derivatives. Topics investigated are double integrals, triple integrals, surface area, and iterated integrals. Class notes, definitions, and examples with detailed solutions are included. The...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Cone
The resource investigates a cone. Students learn about surface area, volume, and different types of cones. Definitions, animations, formulas, and practice questions are included.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Geometry 3 D Shapes
Learn about several three-dimensional geometric shapes and the terminology used to describe them. Learn how to calculate their surface area and volume, and explore their mathematical properties.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Factors Affecting Reaction Rate
This lesson will describe the factors affecting reaction rate, including temperature, stirring (agitation), surface area (particle size), concentration.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.g Shipping Rolled Oats
For this task, 8th graders must determine the optimal dimensions of a cardboard box that will hold six cylinders of oats. To do this, they need to make surface area and volume calculations. Aligns with 8.G.C.9.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Big Can a Bee Be?
Students will study the relationship between surface area and volume. Math, science, and technology components are included.
Stanford University
Stanford University: Bubbling Tablets
Students learn how material properties change as the size of the material decreases to the nanoscale. This experiment investigates the effects of surface area on reaction rates.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Prism or Pyramid?
Sixth graders explore the faces, bases, edges, and vertices of prisms and pyramids to help develop the concepts of volume and surface area.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Function Revolution
This activity allows the user to find the volume and surface area of various functions as they are rotated around axes. This applet can be used to practice finding integrals using the disk and washer methods of calculating volume.
PBS
Pbs: Proportional Scaling
Examine some of the complexities and complications inherent in the development of a micro engine. This video focuses on how MIT researchers have to consider proportions comparing volume and surface area when factoring heat loss, taking...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Surface Area and Volume:prisms
This site from the Drexel University is a detailed explanation of area and volume for those who have trouble with the concept and need an explanation of how they are related and their differences, and other basic concepts for a clear...
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