*Now Available: An instructional video that pairs with the note-taking outline (3 parts) in this product. - Surface Area Instructional Video (Distance Learning) A structured approach to teaching surface area can make it so much easier for students to understand! These materials lend themselves to use in interactive notebooks. These foldable notes, examples, and practice problems feature a structured step by step format to guide student thinking as they calculate the surface area of each figure. Students will find the surface areas of prisms, pyramids, cylinders, cones, and spheres. Students must determine which measurements they must use as extra information is given in some of the diagrams. Contents Foldable notes and instructions Sample problems for notes (9 questions) Worksheet (19 questions) Answer keys A calculator is suggested for this activity. The twenty-eight questions can also be cut apart and used as task cards if desired. Here is a similar lesson about volume: Volume Foldable Notes and Practice These are great followup activities for reviewing surface area and volume: Surface Area Prisms & Pyramids: Decode the Quote Problem Trail: Surface Area Surface Area and Volume Puzzle Area and Volume Ratios Activity CCSS 7.G CCSS 8.G CCSS G-GMD Surface Area Foldable Notes and Practice by Activities by Jill is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.