5.MD.C.5.a
Pack 'em with Santa
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COMBINED RATING
4.0 Stars
TEACHERS (26)
3.8
STUDENTS (6857)
4.1
LENGTH
8 Minutes
GRADES
3
4
5
CAPABILITIES
ES
Spanish Language Support
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Description
Take a journey to the North Pole to meet Santa and help him pack gifts for Christmas. Learn how to find volumes of different prisms through the use of multiplication and by packing them with unit cubes.
Vocabulary Words
volume
prism
base
height
width
length
associative property
formula
cube
Instructions
Play through this interactive game to learn about Prism Volume Using Unit Cubes. Suitable for Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5.
Main Concepts
A unit of volume, a cube with a side length of 1 unit, is called a unit cube.(ES)
Understand that multiplying the length times the width of a right rectangular prism can be viewed as determining how many cubes would be in each layer if the prism were packed with or built up from unit cubes. The height of the prism tells how many layers would fit in the prism.
The formula for volume can be derived as length times width times height, or the area of the Base times the height (V = l x w x h or V = B x h).
Use understanding of multiplying the area of the base and the number of layers to determine the volume of a rectangular prism.
Explain how the associative property can be applied to finding the volume.
Explain multiplication of the area of the base x the height will result in the volume.
Recognize volume as an attribute of a solid figure.
Pack cubes (without gaps) into right rectangular prisms from cubes and count the cubes to determine the volume.
Use unit cubes as a basis for students understanding of volume as a measurable attribute.
Volume is consists of layers of measurable units.
Discussion Questions
Before the Game
What is volume? What makes volume and area different?
After the Game
What are the different ways to find volume? Does it matter the size of the unit cube when finding volume? How could we use similar reasoning to find the volume of a pyramid?
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Game Details
Difficulty
Content Integration
Lexile Level
705