Lesson Plan for Cuisennaire Rods

The lesson I chose for this week is called Sculptures Big and Small. It is listed for grades 5-6. It was found on the manipulative CD. Students are to costruct and find the volume and surface area of different sculptures made from cuisennaire rods. The students then explore the volume of an orange rod to the equal amount of white rods. 1 orange rod is equal to 10 white rods. The Volume of the organde rod would be 10 cubic centimeters. They then move on to surface area and how the organge rod has six surfaces and they must figure out the survace area.