This volume city resource is perfect to teach volume, perimeter and area. This product is designed to encourage students to become architects and create their own city. Students will create a draft, make rectangular nets, build prisms and place them on a map. While the students are creating, they're also learning important math concepts that will help them throughout life! You can find examples of the projects by visiting #VolumeCity.

This activity will encourage students to create their own city and learn about math at the same time. Students will discover how rectangular prisms are constructed and place them in appropriate places.

Students will also explore how grids can help identify the length, width, and height of rectangular prisms. By using trial and error, as well as perseverance skills, students will find the volume of each building and create a city that is only limited by their imagination.

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This resource also includes two additional products: Representing Volume and Rectangular Prisms and Volume. These are two activities that can help students prepare for creating their own Volume City. Specifically, Rectangular Prisms and Volume will prepare students to construct their own prisms by providing examples of different nets. I've seen this used at the upper elementary and middle school levels. Students can complete this independently or in groups.

Students will:

1.) Use centimeter grids to draw nets for 3D shapes that match a certain volume criteria

2.) Cut out the nets and construct an assigned 3D shape

3.) Use a formula to find the volume of a cylinder, prism, cone, or pyramid

4.) Use number models that represent the volume formula

5.) Display the 3D shape in a miniature classroom city

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