Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Surface Area and Volume

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an interactive site that enables the viewer to input different measurements in order to learn about surface area and volume for a rectangular prism and a triangular prism.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Covering and Filling: Surface Area & Volume of Rectangular Prisms

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Students apply their knowledge of surface area and volume to solve some problems for a box company. This lesson contains a detailed lesson plan, video explanations, rubrics, group work guidelines, slides containing problems, and...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: New Boxes From Old

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students find the volume and surface area of a rectangular box (e.g., a cereal box), and then figure out how to convert that box into a new, cubical box having the same volume as the original. As they construct the new, cube-shaped box...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Boxes Go Mobile

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
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.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Popcorn Bucket or Box?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this exploration, learners 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...