Description
This is a fun activity I whipped up for my 5th grade teachers: basically, it helps students understand the relationship between surface area and volume of a solid by seeing that it is possible to remove cubes from a solid without affecting its surface area, but that its also possible to re-configure a solid so that its volume remains constant while changing the surface area.
What's fun about this activity is that it the answers are "sketches" - that is, the students record their answers in isometric drawings using special grid paper which allows them to generate 3 dimensional images without the need for a ruler or protractor.
What's even MORE FUN about this activity is that there are 2 challenge problems where the solutions can be "sketched" but are impossible to build in physical space. Kinda cool, y'know?
If you want more three dimensional challenges for your students, you should definitely look at these activities:
Can You Build This? 10 3-Dimensional Geometric Construction Puzzles
AND
Can You Build This? 10 3-Dimensional Geometric Construction Puzzles
What's fun about this activity is that it the answers are "sketches" - that is, the students record their answers in isometric drawings using special grid paper which allows them to generate 3 dimensional images without the need for a ruler or protractor.
What's even MORE FUN about this activity is that there are 2 challenge problems where the solutions can be "sketched" but are impossible to build in physical space. Kinda cool, y'know?
If you want more three dimensional challenges for your students, you should definitely look at these activities:
Can You Build This? 10 3-Dimensional Geometric Construction Puzzles
AND
Can You Build This? 10 3-Dimensional Geometric Construction Puzzles
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Grades
4th - 9th
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9
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Teaching Duration
2 days
Description
This is a fun activity I whipped up for my 5th grade teachers: basically, it helps students understand the relationship between surface area and volume of a solid by seeing that it is possible to remove cubes from a solid without affecting its surface area, but that its also possible to re-configure a solid so that its volume remains constant while changing the surface area.
What's fun about this activity is that it the answers are "sketches" - that is, the students record their answers in isometric drawings using special grid paper which allows them to generate 3 dimensional images without the need for a ruler or protractor.
What's even MORE FUN about this activity is that there are 2 challenge problems where the solutions can be "sketched" but are impossible to build in physical space. Kinda cool, y'know?
If you want more three dimensional challenges for your students, you should definitely look at these activities:
Can You Build This? 10 3-Dimensional Geometric Construction Puzzles
AND
Can You Build This? 10 3-Dimensional Geometric Construction Puzzles
What's fun about this activity is that it the answers are "sketches" - that is, the students record their answers in isometric drawings using special grid paper which allows them to generate 3 dimensional images without the need for a ruler or protractor.
What's even MORE FUN about this activity is that there are 2 challenge problems where the solutions can be "sketched" but are impossible to build in physical space. Kinda cool, y'know?
If you want more three dimensional challenges for your students, you should definitely look at these activities:
Can You Build This? 10 3-Dimensional Geometric Construction Puzzles
AND
Can You Build This? 10 3-Dimensional Geometric Construction Puzzles
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This was difficult for my students, but I was able to adapt it to fit my needs.
Nice resource. Thanks.
This was such a great challenge for my gifted students! I loved watching them struggle to figure it out!
Great, thanks.
Great resource! Thanks!
Wonderful challenge for my students! Thank you!
Good activity
Challenging, but the students enjoyed it. Better than just solving formulas. Thanks
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