Surface Area and Volume INB Pages

I wanted to share my interactive notebook pages for my surface area and volume unit!  I like the pages that I used, but I think I will include a few more “drill and kill” pages next year.  Instead of teaching all of the surface area formulas and then all of the volume formulas, I taught all about prisms and then all about pyramids.

First, I started with this messy looking page about the parts of a prism.  I realized at the last minute that my students needed a refresher about parts of solids.  This page only had parts of prisms.  I also had a derivation of the formulas at the bottom of the page.  I cut and pasted the diagrams from my student’s textbook.  

parts of prisms interactive notebook page

Next, we did a flip book with the vocabulary formally introduced and practice problems.  I taught the cylinder as a special case of the prism.  I did not give students a separate formula.  Many of them figured it out, but they didn’t have to use it.

surface area and volume of prisms and cylinders flipbook for geometry interactive notebooks

Next, I did this page about composite volume.  The first problem has students add the volumes and the second problem has students subtract the volumes.

composite volume practice page for geometry interactive notebooks

I did another messy looking page to describe the parts of pyramids.  

parts of pyramids interactive notebook page

Another flip book with the vocabulary and practice problems came next.  Again, I taught the cone as a special case of the pyramid.  

surface area and volume of pyramids and cones flipbook for geometry interactive notebooks

Lastly, I taught the surface area and volume of spheres.

surface area and volume of spheres flipbook for geometry interactive notebooks