The Annenberg Learner website has online tutorials and activities to help students learn about different types of prisms. The site explains how prisms are defined and gives illustrations of hexagonal, pentagonal and right and non-right prisms. The site allows users to manipulate 3-D triangular, rectangular, pentagonal and octagonal prisms and change their speed and direction. It also offers highlights for edges, faces and vertices.
Paper model templates of 3-D prisms are available for free on a website created by Gijs Korthals Altes. The files come in PDF format and are available for prisms, antiprisms and concave antiprisms. Basic 3-D triangular, rectangular, pentagonal and decagonal prism models are also provided as well as patterns for five- and six-pointed star, twisted rectangular, truncated hexagonal and oblique rhombic prisms.
The MathisFun website offers tutorials and activity instructions for prisms. The site explains what prisms are with colorful graphics, tells how to calculate the area of a prism and offers a virtual area calculation tool. The site offers several interactive questions about prisms, which allow players to choose from multiple choice answers with help available if needed. Correct answers with explanations are also provided.
The National Science Center offers a lesson plan for right-angle prisms in both Word and PDF formats on its website. This activity allows students to observe and explore right-angle prisms while reinforcing the concepts of light, color, the spectrum and refraction. The lesson plan includes the academic standards met and purpose of the activity as well as instructions for prism and light experiments, scientific information about prisms and light and links for further study.