Lesson Plan

Name: Chelsea Webb

Subject: Math 7
Standard: SOLs 6.10, 7.5
Lesson Title: Surface Area & Volume of Rectangular Prism
Objectives:
The student will calculate the surface area and volume of a rectangular prism.
Vocabulary:
Materials/Resources:

Date: 2.17.16
Grade: 6th

surface area
volume
Mimio, Formula Packet (pages 13 & 14)

Introduction:
Do Now
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Acquire:
Slide 72-Rectangular Prism
What is an example of a rectangular prism?
Looking at this rectangular prism, what would be the height?
Which side is our length? So, that leaves which side as our width?
Take down these steps to set up surface area and volume of a rectangular prism.
1. Label the height, h.
2. Label the (long side) length, l.
3. Label the (shorter side) width, w.
4. Plug into the surface area formula or the volume formula.
Slide 73-Formulas for SA & V
What is surface area the measure of?
Show students a cereal box. Show them the box has a front and back, top and bottom, and a right and a left side.
What does your formula sheet say the formula for surface area of a rectangular prism is?
What does volume measure?
What is the formula for volume of a rectangular prism?
Lets look at an example.
SA = 2lw + 2lh + 2wh
V = lwh
3 cm (h)
SA = 2(10)(2) + 2(10)(3) + 2(2)(3)
V = 10(2)(3)
SA = 40 + 60 + 12
V = 60 cm3
2
2
10 cm (l)
SA = 112 cm
*BIG A = little
*BIG V = little3
2 cm (w)
What do we label first? Second? Third?
What is the formula for surface area?
Plug in to your formula. Remember order of operations.
Multiply or add first?
Now, lets find the volume.
What is the formula for volume?
Plug in to your formula.
Slide 74-Example a.)
Go through example together as a class.
Slide 75-Example b.)
Let students do independently. Go over answers and ask if anyone has questions.
Slide 76-Example c.)

Practice with fractions.

Let students complete independently. Circulate to see if students need assistance. Go over together.
Slide 77-Attribute Chart
Copy down this chart.
Were going to investigate what happens when we scale attributes of a rectangular prism.
What is the volume of the original rectangular prism?
Girls, what is the length after you double it? Now take your double length and multiply by the original width and
height, what is your new volume?
Boys, what is the width after you double it? Now take your double width and multiply by the original length and
height, what is your new volume?
Ill do the same with the height.
What do you notice about our volumes?
Lets go through this same process but instead of doubling lets cut each attribute in half.
What do you notice?
Does this work the same way with surface area? Try it!
Make a note that when one attribute is changed, the volume changes the same way.
Wrap-up:

What does surface area measure?

What does volume measure?

Homework:
Formula Packet page 13 (ODDS)
page 14 (ODDS)
Assessment:
These worksheets ask students to calculate the surface area and volume of rectangular prisms.