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Greenhouse Management
Who knew running a greenhouse required so much math? Amaze future mathematicians and farmers with the amount of unit conversions, ratio and proportional reasoning, and geometric applications involved by having them complete the...
New York City Department of Education
Designing Euclid’s Playground
Create a geometric playground. Pupils work through a performance task to demonstrate their ability to use geometric concepts to solve everyday problems. The accompanying engineering design lessons show teachers how the assessment works...
Radford University
Fun with Solids
Geometry is all around us—if we're only willing to look. The final three activities of the Fun with Solids unit continue work on surface area and volume. For lesson three, scholars investigate the formulas for spheres and solve a problem...
Radford University
Sand Castle
Don't let the task slip through your fingers like sand. Scholars design sand castles using hemispheres, pyramids, cones, and cylinders of different sizes. They calculate the volume and surface area and consider how changing the...
Noyce Foundation
Piece it Together
Score some problems all related to soccer balls. The first few problems focus on pattern blocks to see relationships between figures. More advanced problems focus on actual soccer balls, the patterns on the balls, and their volumes and...
Virginia Department of Education
Similar Solids and Proportional Reasoning
Double the dimensions, quadruple the surface area. Pairs build similar prisms and compare the ratios of their surface areas and volumes to the ratio of the heights. Given two similar cones, partners determine the ratios of the lateral...
Curated OER
Spheres Multiple Choice
In this volume and surface area worksheet, students answer ten multiple choice questions concerning the volume and surface area of various spheres.
Curated OER
Why are Bubbles Spheres
Learners calculate the surface area of different polygons. In this geometry lesson, students practice calculating the volume of spheres. They work with cones, cylinders and rectangular prisms.
Curated OER
Spheres
In this geometry instructional activity, learners complete a chart that compares the surface area and volume of a sphere. There are 21 blanks to complete on the chart.
Curated OER
Volume of Solids
Learners engage in a lesson that is concerned with finding the volume of a solid. They investigate and describe the characteristics of a favorite food and identify it as metal or non-metal. The lesson includes pictures of different solid...
Curated OER
Water on the Moon!
In this moon worksheet, students read about the data collected from the Deep Impact/EPOXI and Cassini missions to the moon that have detected the presence of hydroxyl molecules under the moon's polar craters. Students solve 4 problems...
Curated OER
The Moon's Atmosphere
For this moon's atmosphere worksheet, students read about the tenuous lunar atmosphere and solve 4 problems. They find the density of helium particles, they find the grams of given atoms in the moon's atmosphere and they find the volume...
Curated OER
Lesson #110 Volumes of Solids of Revolution (Disk Method)
Students examine volumes of solids of revolution. In this volumes of solids of revolution lesson, students use the limit of a Riemann sum to find the volumes of disks or cylinders and a sphere.
Curated OER
Areas and Volumes
Tenth graders calculate the area and the volumes of polygons. In this geometry activity, 10th graders review the formulas used to solve for the area and volume and explain to the class how they arrived at their answer. They search online...
Curated OER
Volume and Surface Area
In this volume and surface area worksheet, students read about volume and area, then solve a set of problems arranged in increasing order of difficulty.
Curated OER
Volume and Surface Area
In this volume and surface area worksheet, students find the volume in each of the ten problems listed and write their measurements in terms of the larger amount. They find the volume of a sphere, a rectangular solid, and a cylinder....
Curated OER
A Sphere and Its Net
Students identify and sketch the nets for sphere. In this geometry lesson plan, students differentiate between two and three dimensional shapes. They find the surface area of each sphere.
Curated OER
Surface Area and Volume of Similar Solids
Students explore similar figures. In this surface area and volume lesson, students identify the relationship between the surface area and volume of similar figures.
Curated OER
Surface Area of Spheres
Learners identify the properties of a sphere. In this geometry instructional activity, students calculate the surface area of spheres using the formula derived by nets. They identify the radius and diameter of the sphere.
Curated OER
Glasses
Provide your class some practice with the dimensions of geometric figures. Here you have a set of three different-shaped, stemmed drinking glasses with diameters and heights provided. Math-minded individuals calculate the volume of each....
Radford University
Ping Pong Packing
Bounce off some ideas to reduce the amount of wasted space. Teams work together to determine the best size and shape of container to package a large order of ping pong balls. Groups are to design the container to reduce the amount of...
Curated OER
Volume of Hemisphere
For this volume of hemisphere worksheet, students compute the volume of 5 hemisphere when given either the radius or the circumference.
Curated OER
Working in 3-D Sudoku
In this geometric shapes instructional activity, 7th graders solve and complete 8 different problems that include working in a 3-D sudoku puzzle. First, they determine the area of a circle of a sphere to the nearest tenth. Then, students...
Curated OER
Measurement: 2D and 3D
Students solve volume problems. In this geometry lesson, the class watches a video about clean water (link provided) and individuals compare the volume of different prisms, including an actual drinking glass. Extension activities include...