Year 6: Volume of Cubes and Cuboids (3 Day Unit of Work)

This is a three-day unit of work for teaching Volume objectives in year 6. In this resource pack, you will find: Lesson plans, differentiated worksheets (LA, MA/HA plus a challenge activity for deeper understanding/mastery), answer sheets for all activities and flipcharts for whole class teaching (in ActivInspire, PowerPoint and PDF format). This pack will save you hours and hours of planning, resourcing, differentiating, finding challenging activities and generating flipcharts all for an amazing price.

Day 1 focusses on finding the volume of cubes, cuboids and compound shapes by counting centimetre cubes and using strategies to find the number of cubes quickly. The challenge activity involves the children finding the volume of compound shapes comprised of different sized cubes.

Day 2 introduces the concept that a formula can be used to find the volume of cubes and cuboids (mm, cm, m and km). The challenge activity: Three volume problems to encourage deeper understanding and mastery.

Day 3 focusses on problem solving involving volume. A set of 15 staggered problem solving cards for children to hone their problem-solving skills including challenge activities (problems 13-15) to demonstrate mastery.

ALSO INCLUDED: a bonus ‘volume random worksheet generator’ (Excel) that can be used for early bird, homework, revision or reinforcement.

Objectives covered:

Calculate, estimate and compare volume of cubes and cuboids using standard units, including cubic centimetres (cm³) and cubic metres (m³), and extending to other units [for example, mm³ and km³]
Recognise when it is possible to use formulae for area and volume of shapes

More like this…

Year 6 Maths Assessments and Tracking
Year 6 Statistics – Pie Charts
Year 6 Algebra (Two Weeks)
Year 6 Ratio (One Week)

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