Materials List:
Volumes of Complex Solids
https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/ind_complex_solids_activity1
Each group needs:
- personal computers, one per student, with GeoGebra, Microsoft® Excel® and PowerPoint® installed; download GeoGebra (free) mathematics software at https://www.geogebra.org/download
- Activity Pre-Quiz, one per student
- Estimating Volumes Project Rubric, one per student
- CoolingTowerImages.zip (jpg pictures), one per computer (in digital format)
- a camera, such as a cell phone
- a spherical object that can be measured with a vernier caliper, such as a tennis ball, baseball or large marble (see Figure 4); a more complex object like an egg can also be used; alternatively, if no spherical object or no vernier caliper is available, use the provided photograph of a marble sphere (MarbleSphere.jpg) as the practice object
- vernier caliper
- ruler
For the teacher:
- computer with projector and Internet access, to show students photos and two online video animations
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