Share Our Fun Volume Activities With Your Students

Bring excitement to your maths lessons with these fun volume activities! This resource includes three engaging, hands-on tasks that make volume come to life. In the Volume Scavenger Hunt, students explore the classroom to find objects that meet specific measurement criteria. The Volume Building Challenge lets students get creative by constructing and calculating the volume of their own rectangular prisms. Finally, the ‘What’s the Volume?’ game turns maths into a thrilling competition where students estimate and calculate volume in a game-show format. 

This fun volume activities set includes:

• Volume Scavenger Hunt directions
• Volume Scavenger Hunt recording sheets
• Volume Building Challenge directions
• Volume Building Challenge recording sheets
• ‘What’s the Volume?’ directions
• ‘What’s the Volume?’ label cards
• ‘What’s the Volume?’ recording sheets

This volume of prisms activity set is great for spicing up whole-group instruction, guided groups, and maths stations.  

More About This Volume of Prisms Activity Set

Curious about the three fun volume activities in this set? Here is some more information so you can choose which will best delight and educate your students. 

Volume Scavenger Hunt – Students will go on a classroom scavenger hunt, searching for everyday objects that meet the dimension or volume requirements on their recording sheets. They will then sketch the object, record the measurements and calculate the volume.

Volume Building Challenge – Students will build rectangular prisms meeting specific criteria using provided materials like pipe cleaners, toothpicks, marshmallows and even uncooked spaghetti! They will then accurately record the dimensions and calculate the volume.  

‘What’s the Volume?’ Game – In this activity for volume, students will participate in a game show to estimate and calculate the volume of various everyday objects like cereal boxes, books, and containers. The team that has the closest estimates wins!

Easily Download This Activity for Volume Set

This activity for volume set is easy to download and use! Simply click the arrow on the download button and select either the Google Slides or PDF version of this resource. 

This resource was created by Kendall Britnell, a teacher and a Teach Starter collaborator.

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