Finding the Volume of Rectangular Prisms A Webquest

Finding the Volume of Rectangular Prisms A Webquest ED 885 – Educational Technology Summer 2008 Jill Batchelor, Sarah Irwin, Sandy Patsios, and Phil West

Introduction Dear Students, You are about to take a journey on the information superhighway by completing a “webquest” about how to find the volume of a rectangular prism. During your travels, you will encounter examples of rectangular prisms, view videos of how to solve for volume of these figures, complete tutorials and practice problems, and even watch a fun animated music video! While you are on your webquest trip, be sure to fill out the worksheet along the way. Happy trails to you!!

Volume Worksheet (Print, fill out & turn in) Name ______________ Write the Georgia Performance Standard that aligns with this lesson. _____________________________________________________ ________________________ Where can you find rectangular prisms? ___________________ What shape is the swimming pool? _____________________ What shape are the boxes – How many? ______ List at least three more rectangular prisms that you would find in the real world. __________________________________ Write three new vocabulary words introduced during the Volume tutorial. Define them. _____________________________________________________ ___________________________

Volume Worksheet (Print, fill out & turn in) Name ______________ Write the definition of volume here and add a picture. _____________________________________________________ (From You. Tube Movie) What items do you multiply to get the volume of a rectangular prism? __________________________ (From the eduplace site) Use the example from Lesson 21. 4 to answer the following question. If there are 20 cubes in 2 layers of a prism, what would be the volume? __________ (From Rainforests. Maths) This site uses the word breadth in the volume formula. Breadth is another word for _________. (From You. Tube Movie #2) True or False? The length, width, and height in the formula for volume is interchangeable. _______ If this is true, explain what this means.

Volume Activities Here is a preview of the activities you will complete: n n n n n Georgia Performance Standard – Volume Holt Online Rectangular Prism Review Volume Practice 1 Volume Practice 2 Explore Volume Right Rectangular Prisms Where do you find rectangular prisms? What shape is this? What shape are the boxes – How many?

Georgia Performance Standard - Volume Students, this is the official Georgia Performance Standard (GPS) you will be working on during this activity: M 6 M 3. Students will determine the volume of fundamental solid figures (right rectangular prisms). a. Determine the formula for finding the volume of fundamental solid figures. b. Compute the volumes of fundamental solid figures, using appropriate units of measure. c. Estimate the volumes of simple geometric solids. d. Solve application problems involving the volume of fundamental solid figures.

Right Rectangular Prisms height width length Volume = length x width x height which looks like V = l x w x h OR V = lwh

What shape is this?

What shape are the boxes – How many?

Where do you find rectangular prisms? Swimming Pools Boxes

Explore Volume q Watch this fun video about how to find volume. Even though it’s a catchy tune, don’t sing along out loud because you’ll interrupt your neighbor. Fun video: “The Volume Movie”- set to music- very cute! http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Jijh. DDJv. Exo&feature=related q Scroll down to Unit 7: Geometry and Measurement. Teaching Model: Volume of Rectangular Prisms. Pay close attention to the video. http: //www. eduplace. com/math/mw/models/tm_6. html

Explore Volume (Cont’d) q Go to http: //www. rainforestmaths. com/. Select “Grade 6”, then select “Volume”. Play the interactive game. q Volume of a cube: game. Explore volume in action! This exercise will help you visualize volume. http: //illuminations. nctm. org/Activity. Detail. aspx? ID=6 q Volume of a rectangular prism. View this video about how to find volume. Pay close attention! Be sure to follow along with your worksheet! http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=cds. PFCMmjkw&feature=related

Holt Online Rectangular Prism Review Follow these directions carefully: http: //my. hrw. com w Username: sfmswest w Password: eagle Select 6 th grade textbook Select chapter 10 -7: Volume of Prisms, Go w Review P. 572 w Review lesson tutorial videos 1, 2, and 3 w Complete Interactivity- Finding Volume w Take Interactive Practice Quiz- Lesson 10 -7 w Copy definition and draw picture for volume from Multilingual Glossary

Volume Practice 1

Volume Practice 2

Collaborative Work Skills : Volume Web. Quest Teacher Name: Group 6 Web. Quest Student Name: CATEGORY ____________________ 4 3 2 1 Completion of Worksheet Provides work of the highest Provides high quality work. quality. Worksheet completed with 100% 80% accuracy. Provides work that occasionally needs to be checked/redone by other group members to ensure quality. Worksheet completed with 60% accuracy. Provides work that usually needs to be checked/redone by others to ensure quality. Worksheet completed with less than 60% accuracy. Focus on the task Consistently stays focused on the task and what needs to be done. Very selfdirected. Focuses on the task and what needs to be done some of the time. Other group members must sometimes nag, prod, and remind to keep this person on-task. Rarely focuses on the task and what needs to be done. Lets others do the work. Often listens to, shares with, and supports the efforts of others, but sometimes is not a good team member. Rarely listens to, shares with, and supports the efforts of others. Often is not a good team player. Working with Others Almost always listens to, Focuses on the task and what needs to be done most of the time. Other group members can count on this person. Usually listens to, shares with, and supports the efforts of others. Tries to efforts of others. Does not keep people working well cause "waves" in the group. together. Total Score: ______ Teacher Comments:

References Bennett, J. M. , Burger, E. B. , Chard, D. J. , Jackson, A. L. , Kennedy, P. A. , Renfro, F. L. , et. al. (2007). Volume of Rectangular Prisms: Chapter 10 - Lesson 7. Holt Mathematics: Course 1. Harcourt Education Company. Eather, J. (2006). Rainforest Math Volume Activity. Retrieved June 10, 2008 from http: //www. rainforest. maths. com/. Georgia Department of Education. (2008). Sixth grade math Georgia performance standards. Retrieved June 10, 2008 from http: //www. georgiastandards. org/math. aspx. Georgia Performance Standard M 6 M 3. (2008). Sixth grade math Georgia performance standard for volume of prisms. Retrieved June 10, 2008 from http: //public. doe. k 12. ga. us/. Houghton-Mifflin Math. (2008). Teaching model 21. 4 – Volume of rectangular prisms. Retrieved June 10, 2008 from http: //www. eduplace. com/math/mw/models/tm 6. html. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. (2008). Illuminations. Retrieved June 10, 2008 from http: //illuminations. nctm. org/Activity. Detail. aspx? ID=6.