Teaching Volume Of Liquid

1.0 Teaching Volume of Liquid for Year 2 Student

The Meaning of Volume of Liquid

Volume of liquid refers to the capacity of liquids in the containers. Normally volume of liquid can be measured using non standard units and in standard units which is called millimeters (ml) and litters (l) in the metric system. Investigations amount of liquids which can be poured between containers of different shapes and sizes. Exploration of capacity or volume of liquid involves manipulation of containers of various sizes that may either be collected or purchased for classroom activities. A cheap way to do the activities is to have your students collect some containers such as mineral water bottles, soft drink cans, vases and many more which can be found around them.

Teacher can display those collections of containers in a learning centre for students to explore capacity measurement. Every learning centre should have at least a standard measuring cylinder in liters and millimeters. This is to enable the students to measure volume of liquids especially in standard units.

The above chart is made by a cheap and possible to be created item. Teacher will make a mental switch to metric by pouring, measuring and creating a handy chart to compare volumes.

Teacher can create this handy chart by finding a one liter bottle, such as a water of bottle. Then wash it to make sure it’s clean to be use and dry it under the sun. Teacher can asks the pupils to gather five to six different measuring tools such as cups and container with printed volume amounts. After that, fill the container with water. When everything is ready, teacher may ask the pupils question like, how many of each of them do you think will need to fill the little bottle? So the pupils will start estimating.

Teacher will pours each container at a time. Then mark the water levels using a line of marker on the bottle to show the water level for each container. Remember to choose a different colour for each measurement. Keep continue the process until you have achieve one liter. Then compare the finding to your estimates. After that, empty the bottle before experimenting with another measuring tool.

Then the last process is to use a cardboard as tall as the liter bottle and about twice as wide to lay behind the bottle. Extend the line from the bottle on the cardboard using the same colour. After that label the line and glue the bottle to the cardboard.

2.0 Video Measuring Volume of Liquid With Various Glassware

How To Measuring Volume of Liquid With Various Glassware

3.0 How to Measure And Compare Volume Of Liquid

How to Measure And Compare Volume Of Liquid Using Non - standard Units

Teaching Activity 1; Using non-standard units

Learning Outcomes;
pupils will be able to measure and compare volume of liquids by using non-standard units correctly.

Previous Knowledge;
Pupils had learnt how to compare objects: more or less during their previous lesson while learning A Whole Numbers topic.

Teaching Aids;
Different sizes of containers,

a pail of water and a small cup.

Vocabulary;
more, less, empty, half full, full,

Activities
1. Teacher divides the pupils into group of four.

2. When the groups are ready, pupils will be asks to work in their cooperative learning.
3. Each group will have to appoint one pupil to be the recorder in the group finding.
4. Teacher gives each group 5 set of containers of different sizes, a pail of water and a small cup as the measurement tool.

4. Each group will record the number of cup needed to fill the water in every containers into the form given.

5. Teacher also should teach the pupils to estimate volume such as half full, full and empty.

Conclusion;
End of the activity pupils will bear in mind that the volume of liquid will be determined based on the containers used. The bigger containers the more quantities of water is needed to fill in.

Table 1: Measure volume of Liquid using non-standard unit.

Sample worksheet.

4.0 How to Compare Volume Of Liquid

How to Compare Volume Of Liquid Using Non-Standard Units and Standard Units

Teaching Activity 2; Using non-standard units and standard units

Learning Outcomes;
Pupils will be able to measure and compare volume of liquids by using standard units and non-standard units correctly at the end of the lesson.

Previous Knowledge;
Pupils had learnt how to measure volume of liquid using non-standard units and standard units.

Teaching Aids;
Different sizes of containers,

a measuring cylinder,

a pail of water,

Vocabulary;
more, less, empty, half full, full,

Procedures;
1. Teacher divides the pupils into group of four to do work in their cooperative learning.
2. Teacher then appoints one student to be the recorder in the group.
3. Each group of pupils are given 3 set of containers of different sizes, a pail of water and two measuring cylinders. (One for milliliter and another one for liter)
4. Then each group will fill every container with water and state which is more or less.
5. After that, they will measure the volume of liquid in each container in liter and milliliter by pouring the water from the containers into those measuring cylinders.
6. All the result will be record by the group member in the form given.

Conclusion;

After this activity, pupils will know that volume of liquid can be measured by using non-standard units, but the result is not final. It’s just under estimation. In the other hand, using metric units such milliliters and liter we can find more accurate with the results. Teacher can also let the pupils the relationship between both measurement tools. It’s important to know how to estimate before knowing the exact way of measuring.

Game...enjoy it.....:)

1. Teacher can play game with the pupils in group of 5 students.

2. Before the game start, teacher has to appoint a student in the class to be the recorder.

3. The student who has been appointed to be the recorder will do the shuffled of the cards.

4. The game consists of 5 rounds to finish.

5. All group member will be given a face down card on the table in every round.

6. Then, they open up the cards and read the volume of liquid stated on. The student with the biggest amount is the winner in that round.

7. The process repeat until 5 rounds.

8. Finally result, which ever group with the highest marks is the winner.