Volume Teaching Resources
Explore volume worksheets, games and more teacher-created resources to help your students build their measurement skills!
Aligned with both TEKS and the Common Core math curriculum, resources in this collection have all been designed with your lesson plans — and your students — in mind! Best of all, each digital and printable math resource has been carefully reviewed by a member of our teacher team to ensure it's ready for your classroom!
New to teaching kids to grapple with volume? Read on for a primer from our teacher team!
What Is Volume? A Kid-Friendly Definition
You can't introduce your class to measuring volume without a simple definition they can understand! Here's one from our teacher team:
Volume is a measure of the amount of space that an object occupies in three dimensions.
What Are the Units of Volume?
While liquid volume is typically measured in liquid units such as gallons or quarts, measuring the volume of a 3D object requires different units of volume, such as:
- Cubic inches
- Cubic yards
- Cubic feet
- Cubic centimeters
- Cubic meters
How to Measure the Volume of a Rectangular Prism
One of the first volume measurements that most teachers in the US will introduce is how to find the volume of a rectangular prism such as a box or a cube.
The formula we use to calculate this figure is fairly simple:
- Cube volume = Length x Width x Height
The result will then be represented as a cubed figure. For example, you might see the volume of a box represented as 8 cubic inches or 8 in³.
What Is a Unit Cube and How Is It Used?
A "unit cube" is an object with "one cubic unit" of volume. This specific type of cube has a side length of 1 unit, which makes it useful for measuring the volume of other 3D objects.
To find the volume of an object, students can count how many unit cubes will fit inside it without overlapping.
