Volume - Estimate Volume - Worksheet

In the third lesson of a series on estimating volume, students are tasked with understanding the concept of volume as the amount of solid space occupied by an object, and capacity as the amount a container can hold. The resources provided for this lesson include differentiated sheets, teaching slides, and cubes. The vocabulary focuses on terms such as shape, cube, volume, capacity, centimetre, and centimetre cubes. Students are encouraged to use physical cubes to build models of cubes and cuboids, which aids in their estimation of volume. They are also asked to consider the most appropriate units of measure for different scenarios, such as using cubic metres for the volume of a room.

The lesson challenges students with key questions to differentiate between volume and capacity and to decide whether they need to fill an entire box with cubes to estimate its volume. Additionally, they are prompted to think about which unit of measure would be best for estimating the volume of a classroom. The worksheets guide students through various tasks, including estimating and matching objects to their correct capacity and working out the capacity of different rooms. For reasoning and problem-solving, students are presented with scenarios where they must agree or disagree with a character named Malachi on his volume estimates, explaining their reasoning and considering the depth of the objects in question.