Volume and surface area: Year 7 – planning tool
This planning resource for Year 7 is for the topic of Volume and surface area. Students become familiar with the concepts of volume and surface area. They understand that volume is the amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional (3D) object and is measured in cubic units.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7
- Purpose
- Planning Teaching resource Teaching strategies Student activities
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Area, volume and surface area
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M7M02
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated
- Other terms
- lesson plans assessment task teaching strategies pedagogies Australian Curriculum learning from home misconceptions
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