Surface Area of a Rectangular Prism
Objective: The learners will be able to find the Surface Area of a Rectangular Prism
1. What kind of solid can you see below? 2. What are the different parts of a rectangular prism? 3. Are there congruent faces? Which are they? 4. How many pairs of congruent rectangles are there? 5. Give the area of each rectangle. 6. How do you get the surface area of a rectangular prism. 7. Find the surface area of the rectangular prism shown below. 8. Based on this activity, can you give a formula for the Surface Area of a Rectangular Prism? 9. Change the measures of the length, width, and height of the rectangular prism, then find the surface area.
Below are the steps on how to implement this task:
1. Introduce the lesson on Surface Area of a Rectangular Prism by exploring this applet and answering the given questions above.
2. Give additional activities using the sliders.
3. Give a short quiz.
4. Give an assignment.