Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Rubik's Cube Volume

For Students 6th - 8th
Revealing multiple ways to find volume using a Rubik's cube. This video focuses on modeling volume and explaining why two different volume equations will give you the same answer.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.g Computing Volume Progression 2

For Teachers 6th Standards
The purpose of this second task in a series of four is to find the volume of a rectangular prism when unit cubes are omitted from the drawing. This makes it more abstract. Aligns with 6.G.A.2.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: New Boxes From Old

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students find the volume and surface area of a rectangular box (e.g., a cereal box), and then figure out how to convert that box into a new, cubical box having the same volume as the original. As they construct the new, cube-shaped box...