Students engage in a lesson plan of writing story problems about the capitol building. They conduct research using the internet to find data involving numbers to build a resource bank to draw information for the writing of problems. The...

Fifth graders find the area and volume of buildings. In this architecture lesson, 5th graders look at the drawings of three historic Tennessee buildings. They use these to help find the area and volume of the building. 

Students read a short history of the construction of the Idaho State Capital building. They use a supply list from the superintendent of construction, Herbert Quigley, to calculate costs for particular construction projects depicted in...

The objectives in the resource allow students to explore the characteristics of simple solid shapes. Youngsters learn to recognize the face shapes, corners, and edges that make up 3-D figures by filling in a chart. Lastly,...