Tin Foil Sculpture Project
by David Delikat
Students design and create a sculpture out of recycled materials and then calculate the surface area and volume of the sculpture that they created. They will then utilize the surface area to try and cover their sculpture in tin foil and see the accuracy of their calculations
Lesson Grade Level
10th GradeLesson Plan Link/URL
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17AtpgJZEz0HLXGTn8i8TDNtViiG7I7-H/edit?u…Subject Area
Engineering S2: Apply the Engineering Design Process S3: Apply Mathematics to Engineering Mathematics Measurement and Data (MD) Geometry (G)
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