📐 Fill It. Wrap It. Slice It. Explore 3-D Geometry!

A candy jar and a gift box can spark a big geometry question: Are we measuring the space inside or the surface outside?

Shape Shop helps grades 7–8 students explore volume, surface area, and cross sections through worked examples, visual practice, and a collaborative problem-solving mystery. Keep these connected ideas side by side so students can compare them rather than simply memorize formulas.

🎯 Give Every Lesson a Clear Direction

Built on 30 years of teaching experience in grades 6–12, this resource pairs a 2-day teaching plan with student materials for practice, discussion, and progress monitoring. Options for 55-minute classes and block schedules help you plan around your teaching day.

📚 Inside Your Resource

• Teacher planning tools: topic, learning goal, Common Core targets, and a 2-day lesson plan with differentiation, accommodations, and assessment.
• Student study guide: formulas, laws to remember, worked examples, and cross sections.
• Visual geometry practice: exercises with drawn cylinders, prisms, cones, and pyramids.
• Progress checks: a 0–4 rubric under each exercise, plus a progress tracker.
• Cooperative learning materials: clue cards and a group sheet with assigned roles.
• Answer keys: support for checking work and guiding feedback.

🍬 Bring the Learning Together: Candy Container Mystery

No student has every clue. Each group member contributes information as the team works together to choose the right container. It’s an opportunity to discuss mathematical ideas, compare reasoning, and put geometry into context.

🖨️ Choose How Students Work

• Color and black-and-white PDFs in 8.5 × 11-inch portrait format.
• Large print with no text smaller than 14 pt.
• Fillable pages for typing in Adobe Reader or a browser.
• Print-and-write option for handwritten work.

🏫 Flexible Classroom and Home Use

Use during a geometry unit, for review, in small groups, for cooperative learning, or during tutoring and homeschool lessons.

💻 Digital teaching resource. No physical product is shipped.

Results depend on how the resource is used in your classroom.

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