MORE 3-D GEOMETRY - GROVE MATH -VOLUME AND CAPACITY

This week, we incorporated GROVE MATH into our lessons!!!  This is especially great for kinesthetic learners, but also to include more physical activity and dance into our cross-curricular activities! These activities have the included bonus of teaching mindfulness (being in the moment).  Unfortunately, I was so in the moment myself, that I do not have a video to share with students participating in Grove Math.  Our song was Shake it Up.

This Math Grove engages the body, brain, and being.

Students then made human 3-D Figures taking the different faces, edges and vertices into account.

Next, they were given and investigation.  Their job was to design packaging for a company's product.  Students had to design as many nets as possible to present their proposal to the board of directors.  They used the connects to help them investigate all possibilities.

We learned that pyramids, as well as prisms can be represented as a 2-D shape if you unfold it.  The pattern, or the "NET" can then be folded to make the 3-D shape.  3-D figures can have more than one possible net.

As an entrance ticket the next day, students were given the connects to make cubes.  They were then challenged to find all the possible nets for a cube, being careful to not rotate a net and count it more than once.

VOLUME AND CAPACITY

The next day, we began with a Math Grove excercise to review 3-D figures and their properties. To the music of "Swift Sword".

Afterwards, we discussed the similarities and differences between 2-D and 3-D shapes.  This lead us into a discussion and investigation of capacity and volume, as well as the relationship between the two measurements.  And, of course, we needed to use lots of water to satisfy our curiosity about capacity and the displacement of liquids!!!  We found some cool songs to help us remember what we have discovered.

We now know that 1 cm cubed is equal to 1 mL.  We know that a 10 cm cubed object, for example, will displace 10 mL of water.  We know that volume is the space that an object occupies, and capacity is the amount a container can hold.