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.
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.
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.
I did another messy looking page to describe the parts of pyramids.
Another flip book with the vocabulary and practice problems came next. Again, I taught the cone as a special case of the pyramid.
Lastly, I taught the surface area and volume of spheres.
