Station 1: Your teacher prepared a box and some cubes.
- Each large cube is 1 cubic inch. Count how many cubic inches completely fill the box.
- Each small cube is 1 cubic centimeter. Each rod is composed of 10 cubic centimeters. Count how many cubic centimeters completely fill the box.
|
cubic
inches |
cubic
centimeters |
volume of
the box |
|
|
Station 2: Your teacher showed you a length and prepared a meter stick and a ruler.
- Use the meter stick to measure the length to the nearest meter.
- Use the ruler to measure the length to the nearest foot.
Station 3: Your teacher prepared a gallon of water and some bottles.
- Count how many times you can fill the quart bottle with a gallon of water.
- Count how many times you can fill the liter bottle with a gallon of water.
|
quarts |
liters |
1 gallon
of water |
|
|
Station 4: Your teacher prepared several objects and one or more scales.
Station 5: Your teacher prepared a graduated cylinder and a container of salt.
- Count how many level teaspoons of salt fill the graduated cylinder to 20 milliliters, 40 milliliters, and 50 milliliters.
- Pour the salt back into the original container.
|
milliliters |
teaspoons |
small amount
of salt |
20 |
|
medium amount
of salt |
40 |
|
large amount
of salt |
50 |
|
After rotating through the stations, answer these questions with your group.
- Did more cubic inches or cubic centimeters fit in the cardboard box in Station 1? Why?
- Did it take more feet or meters to measure the indicated length in Station 2? Why?
- Based on your work in Station 3, do you think it would take more quarts or liters to fill a bucket? Explain your reasoning.
- Use the data from Station 4 to put the units of weight and mass in order from smallest to largest. Explain your reasoning.
- Based on your work in Station 5:
- About how many teaspoons of salt would it take to fill the graduated cylinder to 100 milliliters?
- If you poured 15 teaspoons of salt into an empty graduated cylinder, about how many milliliters would it fill?
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How many milliliters per teaspoon are there?
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How many teaspoons per milliliter are there?
