Team Lesson Plan

Surface Area of Prisms Hong Jiang, Edward Liao, Donna Braaten
Section	What	Time	Materials
Bridge	Show prisms.  Define what a prism is. Pose problem of how much paint, chocolate or gold it would take to cover.  What dimension do we need?  Intro to Surface Area and why you might need it.	2	- 3 large unfoldable shapes - prisms (rectangular, circular, triangular)
Leaning Objectives	- Each student will learn: -- how to calculate the surface area of a prism (rectangular, circular and triangular), building on past knowledge of area -- practical applications of measuring surface area -- to breakdown any shape to simplest known areas to be measured	1
Teaching Objectives	- Get all students involved. - Complete exercise with closing remarks	0
Pretest	- Review measurements of area including units	1
Participatory learning / Lecture	After opening (hook and learning objectives) - Open up each shape to break down shape to set of simple shapes for each - Split into groups to build a structure --- put wooden manipulative on the tables --- ask each group to build a village/structure (<= 10 shapes) --- have them calculate the service area - formula, then we provide dimensions	8	- wooden manipulatives - dimensions of the shapes
Post-test	Review their group work and hear their explanations	2
Summary and Wrap up	Review the key concepts: - break down the shape - add the areas	1