This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fifth graders an overview of conversion among units of measure for capacity (english units).

This activity will set up a series of experiments that will help students identify and find physical properties of water. A discussion of what the students know (or believe they know about water) will start this activity. Once the properties are discussed, methods of testing these properties will be discussed by the instructor, leading the students into the students' development of these labs.

To further their understanding of sound energy, students identify the different pitches and frequencies created by a vibrating ruler and a straw kazoo. They create high- and low-pitch sound waves.

Purpose: Engages students and introduces elements needed for building a playground.

In “Playground Palooza”, students will take the role of a playground designer responding to a request for a new playground at the school. Students will learn about numerical patterns, reading and writing decimals, rounding decimals, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals, converting measurements, volume, measuring volume, relating volume, coordinate planes, and attributes of 2D figures. Students will determine the total area of the new playground, determine the total area for each structure you want included on your playground, determine the volume of sand needed for the sandbox, use at least three playground structures, create a table of equipment and materials including company name, cost, quantity, and totals, create a coordinate system to display the center point for each structures or area on the playground, and submit a blueprint of their playground design.

***NOTE
This PBL was created before NC adopted the NC standards for Math. Therefore this PBL also addresses: rounding decimals.

Students must work out how much you need to change the radius of a propane gas tank in order to double its capacity.

In “Sandbox Frenzy”, students will take the role of a sandbox designer for the school. They will learn how to find the volume of a right rectangular prism as they design a new Pre-K sandbox to be used during recess. Students will create a 3D design for the playground. They will determine how many feet of wood they will need and how much sand will be need to fill the sandbox.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about selecting capacity by comparison.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about converting capacities using illustrations (english units).

Students should think of different ways the cylindrical containers can be set up in a rectangular box. Through the process, students should realize that although some setups may seem different, they result is a box with the same volume. In addition, students should come to the realization (through discussion and/or questioning) that the thickness of a cardboard box is very thin and will have a negligible effect on the calculations.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about single-unit, multi-step problems - word problems.

Students analyze and begin to design a pyramid. Working in engineering teams, they perform calculations to determine the area of the pyramid base, stone block volumes, and the number of blocks required for their pyramid base. They make a scaled drawing of the pyramid using graph paper.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about subtracting capacities in compound units (english units).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about subtraction in kilograms.

This document is from Tools 4 NC Teachers. The document includes books, websites, and other resources to support the teaching of Grade 5, Cluster 2. This is remixable.

This lesson is from Tools 4 NC Teachers. In this lesson students will apply their previous knowledge of finding the volume of rectangular prisms to more complex figures which can be decomposed into rectangular prisms. Students will explore the additive nature of volume in these types of figures.

This lesson is from Tools 4 NC Teachers. In this lesson students explore the meaning of volume, explore the properties of rectangular prisms, and develop their own way of finding volume. This is remixable.

This lesson is from Tools 4 NC Teachers. In this lesson, students explore finding volume of two non-overlapping rectangular prisms using the context of a toy factory called Cubix. It is remixable.

This lesson is from Tools 4 NC Teachers. In this lesson students use cubes to explore the concept of volume. This lesson should be one of the first taught in the Cluster. This is remixable.

This lesson is from Tools 4 NC Teachers. In this lesson students will explore volume as additive using concrete objects and pictorial representations. This is remixable.

This lesson is from Tools 4 NC Teachers. In this lesson students will explore volume as additive by looking at non overlapping rectangular prisms. This is remixable.