Description
PURPOSE:
This activity allows your students a chance to showcase some creativity by designing their own sand castle using buckets with predetermined dimensions. They will then calculate volumes of each solid and the total castle volume.
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
This product contains:
✏️ A 1-page exploration into calculating volume and drawing orthographic projections
✏️ Suggestions for best practices of instruction
✏️ Isometric Dot Paper for Perspective Drawings
✏️ Standard Dot Paper for Orthographic Projections
STORY:
When my students were learning the volume formulas for cylinders, cones and pyramids I was reminded of my days as a kid building sand castles on the beach. Then, I realized that the solids my students were studying were the same shapes of my pails of sand. Thus this activity was born.
POSSIBLE EXTENSIONS:
Two possible extensions are included in this file!
MATERIALS/PRE-REQS:
Besides this file, you may require:
✏️ Nothing
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Description
PURPOSE:
This activity allows your students a chance to showcase some creativity by designing their own sand castle using buckets with predetermined dimensions. They will then calculate volumes of each solid and the total castle volume.
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
This product contains:
✏️ A 1-page exploration into calculating volume and drawing orthographic projections
✏️ Suggestions for best practices of instruction
✏️ Isometric Dot Paper for Perspective Drawings
✏️ Standard Dot Paper for Orthographic Projections
STORY:
When my students were learning the volume formulas for cylinders, cones and pyramids I was reminded of my days as a kid building sand castles on the beach. Then, I realized that the solids my students were studying were the same shapes of my pails of sand. Thus this activity was born.
POSSIBLE EXTENSIONS:
Two possible extensions are included in this file!
MATERIALS/PRE-REQS:
Besides this file, you may require:
✏️ Nothing
*********************************************************************
RELATED INNOVATIONS from Mr. Kugie’s Curriculum
Categories:
Products:
☆ Discounts and Deals | Math Exploration
☆ Balance Bender Equations | Math Exploration
☆ Battle of the Story Problems | Math Game
☆ Holiday Traditions | Math Exploration
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