Volume of Rectangular Prisms Hands On Activity - Finding Volume 5th Grade
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Learning Objective
Students will explore the volume of rectangular prisms through hands-on activities. These stations guide students to discover the formula for volume of a rectangular prism themselves.
Description
Explore volume with hands-on center or station activities!
These volume stations will allow your students to explore volume concepts and begin to discover the formula for volume of rectangular prisms on their own. Students will create rectangular prisms using snap cubes and use them to determine the volume of each shape.
Since we know that students remember more of what they do than what we tell them, these volume centers were designed to allow the student to discover the formula for volume of a rectangular prism while the teacher takes the role of "guide on the side."
Station 1: Students will explore the concept of volume by building & sketching rectangular prisms.
Station 2: Students will build multiple rectangular prisms using a defined number of cubes.
Station 3: Students will build rectangular prisms with given dimensions and determine the volume.
Includes:
- 3 volume exploration centers
- Directions
- Task cards
- Recording sheets
- Whole group guided discovery activity that can be used separately or along with the station activities.
You will need about 350 total cubes to run all of these center activities at the same time. All of the cubes do not need to match. Feel free to use any combination of different brands of snap cubes, counting cubes, centimeter cubes, etc.
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