Volume

This is a one week unit, so each topic will need to be covered in one day. There are worksheets in the Pearson/Envision materials (copies below) that help students work through estimating capacity and weight/mass. The volume worksheets might be useful for homework. Several of the activities require that you have things to measure such as cereal or baking items. Good substitutes that might work well are salt, rice, or beans. You will need to get these or ask for donations from your parents. The assessment was created using Envision.

3.11 Measurement. The student directly compares the attributes of length, area, weight/mass, and capacity, and uses comparative language, to solve problems and answer questions. The student selects and uses standard units to describe length, area, capacity/ volume, and weight/mass. 3.11D Identify concrete models that approximate standard units of weight/mass and use them to measure weight/mass. 3.11E Identify concrete models that approximate standard units for capacity and use them to measure capacity. 3.11F Use concrete models that approximate cubic units to determine the volume of a given container or other three-dimensional geometric figure.
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 * Core Components:**
 * Uses concrete and pictorial models.
 * Estimates before measuring using phrases such as "about", "more" or "less than", and "closer to _ than _"
 * Selects appropriate unit and appropriate tool for the object to be measured.
 * Uses the TAKS Mathematics chart regularly when solving measurement problems.
 * Uses a variety of scales, such as spring scale and balance scale, to find the weight of objects in metric (grams and kilograms) and customary (ounces and pounds) measures.
 * Uses tools for customary measures such as cups, pints, quarts and gallons to find capacity of a container.
 * Uses tools for metric measures such as milliliters and liters to find capacity of a container.
 * Uses cubic centimeters or blocks to find volume of a box or container.

 ** Volume: **

Lesson Plans

here are some task cards and group job assignment cards to use with the apartment houses lesson



Worksheets


 * Weight and Mass: **

Lesson Plans


 * Capacity (non-standard units and customary units):**

Lesson Plan

Capacity (customary units): **

Once in the kingdom of Gallon, (draw a very large G representing the gallon and filling the sheet) there lived four Queens. (Draw 4 large Q’s to represent the 4 quarts, inside the G.) Each Queen had a Prince and Princess in her castle. (Draw 2 P’s inside each Q to represent the 2 pints in a quart.) Each Prince and Princess had 2 cats. (Draw 2 C’s inside each P to represent the 2 cups in a pint.) Point out to the students that the horizontal line on the G shows the division for half gallon.
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Capacity Exemplar:

Capacity Worksheets:

Related Literature: **

__Pastry School in Paris: an Adventure in Capacity__ __Room for Ripley__ __If You Were a Quart or a Liter__ Assessment: **