Description
Challenge students to design a bird feeder and calculate the volume in this task.
Students use rectangular prisms, triangular prisms, pyramids, cylinders, spheres, and/or cones to create their design. Then they show calculations for finding the volume.
This task can be used as individual practice, group work, or even extended into a project.
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Students use rectangular prisms, triangular prisms, pyramids, cylinders, spheres, and/or cones to create their design. Then they show calculations for finding the volume.
This task can be used as individual practice, group work, or even extended into a project.
Thank you for your interest in this resource from Rise over Run.
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8th Grade Geometry Bundle
Volume Tasks
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Grades
6th - 8th
Subjects
Standards
CCSS7.G.B.6
CCSS8.G.C.9
CCSSHSG-GMD.A.3
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1
Teaching Duration
1 hour
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Description
Challenge students to design a bird feeder and calculate the volume in this task.
Students use rectangular prisms, triangular prisms, pyramids, cylinders, spheres, and/or cones to create their design. Then they show calculations for finding the volume.
This task can be used as individual practice, group work, or even extended into a project.
Thank you for your interest in this resource from Rise over Run.
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25 8th Grade Math Tasks
8th Grade Geometry Bundle
Volume Tasks
Students use rectangular prisms, triangular prisms, pyramids, cylinders, spheres, and/or cones to create their design. Then they show calculations for finding the volume.
This task can be used as individual practice, group work, or even extended into a project.
Thank you for your interest in this resource from Rise over Run.
Related Resources:
25 8th Grade Math Tasks
8th Grade Geometry Bundle
Volume Tasks
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Awesome resource to review the concept with. My students really enjoyed it.
Loved this resource! Works great. I was able to use this with a great diversity of students.
My students found this engaging and useful to see the usefulness of volume in the real world.
Love this volume task, my students were very engaged. Thank you.
We loved this activity!! My students a really struggled with understanding volume. This helped them picture it and understand immensely.
Great resource! Thank you!
I love getting to use this in my classroom!
This was a great project. My kids were really interested in the idea of designing something themselves. Thanks!
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSS7.G.B.6
Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, volume and surface area of two- and three-dimensional objects composed of triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, cubes, and right prisms.
CCSS8.G.C.9
Know the formulas for the volumes of cones, cylinders, and spheres and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
CCSSHSG-GMD.A.3
Use volume formulas for cylinders, pyramids, cones, and spheres to solve problems.
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