LESSON 6 Joe the Goldfish

Pretend you need to design and make a raincoat for Joe the Goldfish. Find the area of the raincoat in square centimeters.

Discuss the following questions with your classmates.

1. What do you need to think about before you start working?
2. How much of Joe is the coat going to cover?
3. What are you going to do about Joe's tail? Fins? Gills? Eyes?
4. Are you going to think about Joe as a flat figure like a paper doll or a real fish that has a right side and a left side?
5. How many sides of Joe are you going to cover?
6. What tools will you need?