Students will investigate the relationship between surface area and volume and their application to the inner workings of real life organisms.

This task challenges students to demonstrate understanding of area, surface area and volume.

What do tin foil, surface area, and rectangular prisms make? A tin foil robot of course! This lesson includes practice problems about surface area, worksheets, a video explanation, and a reflection sheet.

Use this online calculator to calculate the volume of geometric solids including a capsule, cone, frustum, cube, cylinder, hemisphere, pyramid, rectangular prism, sphere, and spherical cap.