MAFS.6.G.1.4Archived Standard

Students are asked to use a net to find the surface area of a triangular pyramid.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to use a net to find the surface area of a rectangular prism.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to draw a net of a three-dimensional figure.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to draw a net of a three-dimensional figure.

Type: Formative Assessment

Lesson 2 of 3 on Surface Area, this lesson is designed to take students from the previous lesson of recognizing nets of rectangular prisms and finding areas of its individual faces, to recognizing nets of triangular prisms and finding areas of its individual faces in order to find the surface area of the prism.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson is the first of three in a unit on surface area. This lesson provides a foundation for understanding the concept of surface area by introducing nets of rectangular prisms.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will learn what a "net" is, draw nets of three dimensional shapes, accurately calculate the surface area of their nets, and put them together to create an original person or pet.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students create surface area nets with graph paper and work with manipulative cubes to decide if there is a relationship between surface area and volume in rectangular prisms.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this activity, students will work in groups to evaluate the measurements of shapes that form three-dimensional composite shapes to compute the surface area.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will be able to match a 3-D shape with its net, then using the net, they will find the surface area of the shape. They will then be able to apply this knowledge to solve real world application problems, finishing up with a design contest.

Type: Lesson Plan

This MEA will have students determining the safest and most cost effective material to use when building a tree house.They will do this by calculating surface area and determining cost.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson students will find the surface area of three-dimensional figures. Students will use nets made up of rectangles and triangles to calculate the surface area of rectangular prisms, triangular prisms, and square pyramids.

Type: Lesson Plan

This is a guided inquiry lesson to help students gain greater understanding of the relationship between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes. Students create right rectangular and triangular prisms and problem-solve how to find the flat 2-dimensional surface area. Students are asked to figure out how many party favors (prisms) can be painted with a quart of glow-in-the-dark paint.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this introductory lesson to surface area, students will make connections between area of two dimensional figures and calculating the surface area of rectangular prisms using nets, within the context of wrapping birthday presents! Math is Fun :)

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson is 3 of 3 in a unit and is primarily formative in nature but I have attached a summative assessment with this lesson for students to take during the following class period.

During the lesson, students will be reviewing for their assessment on the surface area formula for a rectangular prism.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this Model Eliciting Activity, MEA, students are asked to develop a procedure to fit the most amount of rectangular prism plant packages on one sheet of cardboard, using nets and surface area.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson allows students to derive the formulas for 3D figures by having them build models for nets.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will construct several simple polyhedra, then count the number of faces, edges, and vertices. These data should suggest Euler's formula. 

Type: Lesson Plan

This hands-on lesson is a review for three-dimensional figures. The students make models of three-dimensional figures and then use these play dough models to count the vertices, edges, and faces.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson is designed for 7th grade students and is best suited for advanced students. It can be used (with modifications) in the general education classroom for 7th grade or in an advanced 6th grade classroom. In this MEA, students select jars for candles based on a variety of factors and then design boxes to contain the jars.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this activity, students adjust the dimensions of either a rectangular or triangular prism and the surface area and volume are calculated for those dimensions. Students can also switch into compute mode where they are given a prism with certain dimensions and they must compute the surface area and volume. The application keeps score so students can track their progress. This application allows students to explore the surface area and volume of rectangular and triangular prisms and how changing dimensions affect these measurements. This activity also includes supplemental materials, including background information about the topics covered, a description of how to use the application, and exploration questions for use with the java applet.

Type: Problem-Solving Task

Students can practice answering mathematics questions on a variety of topics. With an account, students can save their work and send it to their teacher when complete.

Type: Student Center Activity

"Students create their own cylinder and find the surface area by combining the areas of the two circles and the rectangular piece" (from Beacon Lesson Plan Library).

Type: Teaching Idea

This video demonstrates how to construct nets for 3-D shapes.

Type: Tutorial

This video demonstrates using a net to find surface area.

Type: Tutorial

In these two 50-minute lessons, students will work in pairs or small groups to design cartons that can contain specifically sized candies. Upon completion of these lessons, students will have selected appropriate mathematical models for an unstructured problem, identified constraints and variables, and worked with two and three dimensional shapes to solve a problem involving capacity and surface area.

Type: Unit/Lesson Sequence

In this interactive, self-guided unit on 3-dimensional shape, students (and teachers) explore 3-dimensional shapes, determine surface area and volume, derive Euler's formula, and investigate Platonic solids. Interactive quizzes and animations are included throughout, including a 15 question quiz for student completion.

Type: Unit/Lesson Sequence