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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Shape It Up Activity Plan

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Get your spy glasses ready! In this weeklong adventure, children will explore shapes and their attributes and use this knowledge to decode a secret message. Children will learn about two-dimensional (flat) and three-dimensional (solid)...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Shape Changing With the Cyber Squad

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this project, you will make 2-dimensional templates, called nets, that fold up into 3-dimensional (3-D) shapes. By making shapes of different sizes, you will be able to see how 3-D shapes change with size. In your findings you will...
Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Geometric Solids

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An interactive game to find number of edges, surfaces and vertices of different geometric shapes.
Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Geometry 3 D Shapes: Platonic Solids

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about platonic solids, a special type of polyhedra. Read a definition, make three-dimensional models using printouts, and play with an interactive animation, which will show you the faces, vertices, and edges on platonic solids:...
Article
Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: Drawing the Football

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explores the shape, symmetry and surface structure of a football (or soccer ball, depending on your nationality) to see how this understanding can help one draw these sorts of complex shapes.
Interactive
Doina Popovici

Math Play: 3 D Shapes

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Name various 3D shapes in this online game.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.g Cube Ninjas!

For Teachers 7th
In this lesson, 7th graders slice three dimensional objects to determine what two dimensional shape is created.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Stressed Out? Take a Break With This Project!

For Students 6th - 8th
Is an I-beam as strong as a solid beam of the same size? What if you include weight in the comparison: which beam has the greater strength-to-weight ratio? Would an I-beam be stronger than a solid rectangular beam of the same weight?...
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.
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Pizza (Italian) Restaurant: 3 D Space

For Students 2nd - 4th
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario. Those skills include identifying 3D objects, identifying the similarities and differences in prisms and pyramids, and drawing 3D shapes such as...
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.
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Cube Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this calculator to calculate unknown variables for a cube such as a side length, face diagonal, solid diagonal, surface area, and volume.
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Surface Area Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Online calculator to calculate the surface area of geometric solids including a capsule, cone, frustum, cube, cylinder, hemisphere, pyramid, rectangular prism, sphere, spherical cap, and triangular prism
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Popcorn Bucket or Box?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this exploration, students will apply their knowledge of finding volume and surface area of cylinders and rectangular prisms. Students will make recommendations to the local movie theater after determining which package is cost...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Pump Up the Volume

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
In this lesson, students will be required to generate a formula for volume of a rectangular prism. Students working in cooperative groups will use prior knowledge for finding area of a rectangle to determine the "amount of area in a...
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 9.5 Modeling in Three Dimensions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore connections between a 2-dimensional net and a 3-dimensional box. Later in this section, use equations with variables to solve real world problems that use 2 and 3-dimensional objects.
Unit Plan
Math2

Math2.org: Areas, Volumes, Surface Areas

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives formulas for the area, volume, and surface area of various shapes.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Floaters and Sinkers

For Teachers 6th - 9th
This lesson introduces learners to the important concept of density. The focus is on the more easily understood densities of solids, but students can also explore the densities of liquids and gases. Learners devise methods to determine...
Activity
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Square Pyramid Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
This online calculator will calculate the various properties of a square pyramid given 2 known variables. The square pyramid is a special case of a pyramid where the base is square. It is a regular pyramid with a square base.
eBook
Mathigon

Mathigon: Geometry: Circle and Pi: Conic Sections

For Students 9th - 10th
The circle is one of four different shapes which can be created using "slices" through a cone, a 3-dimensional solid that has a circular base joined to a single point (called the vertex) by a curved side. If you tilt a cone, you get an...
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Tube Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
This calculator will calculate the various properties of a tube, also called a pipe or hollow cylinder, given 3 known values from variables of radii, circumference, wall thickness and height.
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Conical Frustum Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
This online calculator will calculate the various properties of a conical frustum given the 2 radii and any 1 other known variable.
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Circular Cylinder Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
This online calculator will calculate the various properties of a cylinder given 2 known values. It will also calculate those properties in terms of PI.
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Cone Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
This online calculator will calculate the various properties of a right circular cone given any 2 known variables.

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