Ohio
Virtual Tour: Landfill
Fill It Up — Design a Landfill
Overview
In the last lesson, students designed the outline of the
landfill. In this lesson, they add the required layers
to a working landfill. They design a cross-section of the
the landfill, as if they were looking at it from the side.
Outcome
Students will understand how to measure length, width
and depth, and calculate volume.
Standards Addressed — Mathematics
Grade
4
Measurement Units, Benchmark C
02. Demonstrate and describe perimeter as surrounding
and area as covering a two-dimensional shape,
and volume as
filling a three-dimensional object.
Use Measurement
Techniques and Tools, Benchmark D
04. Develop and use strategies to find perimeter
using string or links, area using tiles or
a grid and volume
using cubes; e.g., count squares to find area
of regular or irregular shapes on a grid, layer
cubes
in a box to
find its volume.
06. Write, solve and verify solutions
to multi-step problems involving measurement.
Grade 6
Measurement Units, Benchmark F
01. Understand and describe the difference between
surface area and volume.
Materials
Procedure
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Pass out copies of the handout
Typical Anatomy of a Landfill and review it with
students.
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Have the students draw layers two through 14.
These are the layers in a working landfill.
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Explain to students that in the previous lesson,
they designed the landfill as if
they were looking
down on
it. In this lesson, they will be looking
at a cross section, or side, of the landfill.
Pass
out copies of the Fill It Up: Design
a Landfill handout.
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Review the directions.
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Monitor students as they
begin to draw their landfills. Remind them that
they are adding
length, width and
depth.
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When students have finished, have
them share their drawings.
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Distribute copies of the
Sanitary Landfill: Final Report handout. Students
should record
their measurements.
Alternatively,
students could record their measurements
as they draw them. Tell them to leave the volume
column
blank for
now.
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Discuss how the volume might be calculated.
Have students generate strategies for
getting the volume.
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Have students calculate the
volume of each layer to complete their reports.
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Extension: Ask groups of students to use their understanding
of ratio and proportion
to draw murals
of their sanitary
landfill designs. Murals could show
aerial views and side views of landfills.
Evaluation
Assess each student’s understanding by checking
handouts. The depth of the landfill is 12 feet,
but the volume will vary according to the length
and width of each student’s design.
| Wrote the length, width and volume of
each of eight areas (3 points each). |
24 points |
| Wrote the length, width and area of two areas (3
points each). |
6 points |
| Final measurements of the landfill (3 points each). |
12 points |
| Total |
42 points |
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