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National Park Road Trip: Nets and Surface Area

Draw nets and calculate surface areas of prisms and pyramids while planning supplies for a national park road trip.

Grade 6MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to6.G.A.4

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 Common Core standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 14 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 6
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Short answer, Drawing

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students draw and label nets of rectangular and triangular prisms.
  • Students use rectangular and triangular faces in nets to calculate surface area.
  • Students distinguish total surface area from the area of selected faces.

How to use

Use after introducing nets and triangle area. Have students label face dimensions and show area calculations beside each problem.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

6.G.A.4

Draw nets of rectangles and triangles for 3-D figures and use them to find surface area.

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National Park Road Trip: Nets and Surface Area

Plan flat patterns for supplies used along a national park road trip.

Pack for the Drive

All figures are models of road-trip supplies. Ignore material thickness, seams, and overlap. Draw nets with faces joined edge to edge. Label dimensions and show your calculations.

1.
Before leaving for Zion National Park, the group packs a closed rectangular supply box. It is 6 cm long, 4 cm wide, and 2 cm high in a scale model. Draw one net for the model. Label the length and width of every face.
2.
Use the supply-box dimensions from Question 1: 6 cm by 4 cm by 2 cm. Find the total area of all six faces in its net.

Surface area:   cm²

3.
A closed snack carton for the drive is a cube with 5 cm edges. Which description gives a net that can fold into this cube?
  • A. Six 5 cm squares joined in one straight row.
  • B. Six 5 cm squares arranged in a 2-by-3 rectangle.
  • C. Four 5 cm squares in a row, with one square above and one below the second square.
  • D. Four 5 cm squares in a row, with one square above the first and one above the third.

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