Posted: 21 Jul 2013 03:46 AM PDT
The weekend has come and gone, I am sure they go faster than what Monday and Tuesday do - ah well, I eventually get everything done that I need to!
9 Volume and Surface Area Activities for the Classroom. These nine Volume and Surface Area activities are only the tip of the iceberg on ways that you can teach the concepts in your classroom. I hope that one ( or more) might tickle your fancy and get you excited to teach these concepts in a new and fun manner. Volume of a Cone vs Cylinder. So a cone's volume is exactly one third ( 1 3 ) of a cylinder's volume. In future, order your ice creams in cylinders, not cones, you get 3 times as much! This activity was created by a Quia Web subscriber. Learn more about Quia: Create your own activities.
What a fun week we had to start the term in Maths last week, we spent the week investigating Volume and Capacity. I thought I would share a couple of our favourite activities from the week.
We started with an activity where we pretended we were buying a jar of boiled lollies. Each of the unifix was a different lolly. We used a piece of paper to make a cylinder, then filled the 'jar' with our lollies.
Then we put the blogs in their colours and made a graph with the blocks.
Then we measured and drew a cylinder in our maths book and counted the number of blocks we had to fit inside our cylinder.
This is what we recorded in our books.
Then we repeated the activity with a different sized cylinder and compared the results. This was a great two day investigation!
Then we did another investigation from this great booklet from fellow Australia, Tania Poultney. I always get excited when I find something online that I know my class are going to absolutely love and this was no exception!
Volume Of Cylinder Interactive Game
We started with watching this video on youtube. It is a little corny but it taught children the concept they needed to know.
Volume Of Cylinder Interactive Games
Then our first step was to make the three boxes included in the pack. We worked in groups of three so we didn't have to make all three!
Then we had to work out the volume of each box using 1cm cubes. The little box was their favourite.
Surface Area Of Cylinder
It was so interesting to see how the children got their answers for working out the volume of the boxes. Some clicked and simply worked out the length x width x height, others counted all the blocks. Luckily the worksheets contain some extension questions so those who finished early went on with those. Sorry I forgot to take a photo of that!