Lesson Planning Sheet Title: Total Surface Area and Volume of Cuboids Learning Objectives: By the end of the

lesson: All students should be able to calculate a Total Surface Area when given a cuboids volume. Most students should be able to calculate multiple Total Surface Areas when given a fixed volume. Some students should be able to calculate the multiple total surface areas when given a fixed volume of a compound prism. Key words: Investigation, Total Surface Area, Volume, Cross-section, Depth Learning Activities Starter/Introduction Recap the difference between volume and total surface area using an old cereal box. Next, use the first slide for students to determine the various factors of 18 and how these numbers can form the dimensions of a cuboid. Emphasise that even though the volume is fixed to 18cm3 the dimensions, and therefore the total surface area can be variables. Work though the various total surface areas for one of the cuboids then have the students calculate the total surface area of the other two using mini-whiteboards. It might be helpful to have the class draw a net of the cuboid for a 2D representation. Development Once students are able to calculate the total surface area of a cuboid use the second slide for the students to work independently. It is important for them to produce usable sketches of the solids that represent the dimensions. The sketches do not need to be to scale though. To extend this for the most able encourage the students to consider using decimal lengths. Rather than telling the students to use decimals create a class competition to find the largest surface area for each cuboid. Plenary Pose the prism on the third slide and give the students 2 minutes or so to make sense of the problem. Discuss suitable approaches for finding a total surface area. Guide the students into considering the prism as two joined cuboids rather than as one prism. Once they can visualise this have the class work in pairs on a single whiteboard to create two different Total Surface Areas. Differentiation More able As an extension to the main phase of the lesson the most able students could be given a surface area and asked to find different volumes. Encourage the use of decimals and mixed fractions to represent the cuboids dimensions. Use non-cuboid solids from which to find the total surface area. Less Able Less able students should create a net of each cuboid when finding the total surface area to break the problem down. Students may need practise accurately sketching the solid shapes. Encourage efficient use of a calculator emphasising the use of the bracket keys. Resources: Notebook File. Mini-whiteboards Calculator Cereal box