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Space Frontier Farm

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COMBINED RATING

4.2 Stars

TEACHERS (54)

4.5

STUDENTS (12661)

3.9

LENGTH

12 Minutes

GRADES

CAPABILITIES

iPad Support

Spanish Language Support

Text-to-Speech Support

Description

Welcome to the space frontier! In this space colony far far away, the robots use the latest technology to nurture and take care of farm animals in giant farm buildings. But, we must calculate the capacity of the building before we bring in the animals!

Vocabulary Words

volume

length

width

height

unit

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about Additive Volumes. 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)

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).

Side lengths are whole numbers.

Find volume or any of the edge lengths by manipulating the formula for volume to find one other.

Find the total volume of solid figures composed of two right rectangular prisms.

Justification of volumes meeting set criterion by finding volumes and adding or subtracting volumes.

Recognize volume as an attribute of a solid figure.

Use unit cubes as a basis for students understanding of volume as a measurable attribute.

Volume is consists of layers of measurable units.

Mentally decompose and recompose a right rectangular prism built from cubes into layers, each of which is composed of rows and columns.

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.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

How can you find out how many cubic units something takes up? If you can't see all the cubes, is there still another way to calculate how many cubes of space are being taken up?

After the Game

What is the formula to calculate the volume of any rectangular prism? How did you find the volume of the buildings that were composed of two different buildings? How did you find the volume of buildings that included empty spaces?

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Game Details

Difficulty

Content Integration

Lexile Level

705