Year 6: Volume of Cubes and Cuboids (Day 1)

This is a Day 1 of a 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.

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]

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