Unit 8: Solar Design

Volume of Boxes

Below you will find resources to help explain how to find volume of boxes in order to assist students in solving problems related to their solar energy house designs.

Home Connection Pages:

• How Multiplication/Order of Operations Relates to Volume (look at commentary after attempting to solve the problem for detailed explanations and visuals)

• Measuring Volume with Unit Cubes

• Volume of a Rectangular Prism

Decimal Operations

Below you will find resources to help review for students how to add, subtract, multiply, or divide decimals to assist students in calculating the different costs for materials for their designs.

Home Connection Pages:

• Adding Decimals

• Subtracting Decimals

• Multiplying Decimals

• Dividing by a Multi-Digit Decimal

Drawing to Scale

Below you will find resources to help students draw to scale in order to assist with their house design.

Home Connection Pages:

• Scale Drawings

• Making a Scale Drawing

• Interpreting a Scale Drawing

Plotting Points on a Graph

Below you will find resources to help explain how to properly plot ordered pairs on a graph and the strategies students can use to plot ordered pairs.

• Introduction to the Coordinate Plane Video

• Coordinate Plane - Graphing Points

• Plotting Points on a Graph Video