Volume of Rectangular Prisms and Cylinders WebQuest

1
Volume of Rectangular Prisms and Cylinders
WebQuest

• Maria Sabetta
• MSabetta711_at_hawks.rwu.edu
• Roger Williams University

2
Developer Page

• Developer Materials
• Introduction
• Learners
• Curriculum Standards
• Process
• Resources
• Evaluation

• Student Pages
• Student Introduction
• Student Task
• Student Process
• Student Evaluation
• Conclusion

3
Introduction

• This is a webquest designed for students to learn
  the concept of volume. Students will apply the
  concept of volume to finding the volume of two
  specific shapes to start, rectangular prisms and
  cylinders. This webquest allows students to use
  the internet to practice and further their
  knowledge on the concept of volume. It also
  allows students to apply the concept of volume to
  real-life objects.

4
Learners

• Grade 9 or 10 - Geometry
• Learners should know how to recognize various
  3-dimensional shapes
• When teaching this lesson, it will help the
  learners to better understand the material by
  showing them visuals (such as cereal boxes as
  rectangular prisms or soup cans as cylinders)

5
Curriculum Standards

• Tennessee State Standards
• Geometry

6
Process

• 1-2 class periods
• Students should be placed in groups of 3-4
  depending on class size, when exploring the
  visuals
• Teacher must be aware of how to use the internet
  to implement this webquest
• Teacher should allow students to have access to
  the formula, it would be too stressful on
  students to have to memorize all volume formulas
• When choosing objects for students to compute
  volume of in class, be sure to get different
  shaped prisms and cylinders, but about the same
  size so it is difficult to tell which volume is
  greater

7
Teaching Resources

• Websites
• Cylinders Exploration
• Prism Exploration

8
Evaluation

• A teacher would know if this webquest was
  successful by the students completion of the
  class examples after exploring the concepts on
  their own, and by how well the students do with
  the in-class activity.

9
Student Pages

• Introduction
• Task
• Process
• Evaluation
• Conclusion

10
Student Introdcution

• For homework, you will visit two specific
  websites to discover the concept of volume. You
  will be focusing on two specific 3-dimensional
  shapes, prisms and cylinders. You will follow the
  student discovery guide, and as you are searching
  these websites, you will fill in your student
  discovery guide worksheet. This will introduce
  you to the formulas, and allow you to try a few
  examples involving the new formulas. The next day
  in class, you will complete some more challenging
  volume problems, and compute the volume of a few
  real-life objects.

11
Student Task

• Student Discovery Handout

12
Student Process

• For homework, you will visit two specific
  websites to explore the concepts of volume of
  prisms and cylinders
• You will fill out your student discovery guide,
  while exploring the websites
• Once you complete the student discovery guide,
  you will complete some more challenging volume
  problems in class the next day
• During that class period, you will also split
  into groups of 4, and compute the volumes of real
  life objects (1 group has a small soup can, 1
  group has a tuna can, 1 group has a fruit roll up
  box, the other group has a different shaped fruit
  roll up box)
• Before computing the volumes of these objects,
  you will make a hypothesis as to which cylinder
  has a greater volume, and which prism has a
  greater volume

13
Student Conclusion

• To conclude this lesson, I will go over the
  answers to the volume of the four objects. I
  will also give you a homework sheet to get more
  practice on the volume of prisms and cylinders.