Course in Brief:

• Capacity is a measure of how much something holds.

• Capacity units are often used to measure items that are filled with liquids, like water,  or pourable solids, like sand or sugar or salt, because they behave like liquids.

• The main capacity units are the litre, the millilitre, and the kilolitre.

• A litre (L) is the amount of liquid that would fill a cube that is 10 cm (or 1 dm) on an edge. 

• A millilitre (mL) is one thousandth as much; it is the amount of liquid that would fill a cube that is 1 cm on an edge. 

• A kilolitre is 1000 L; it is the amount of liquid that would fill a cube that is 1 m on an edge.

• One way to measure volume is to figure out the amount of water that is displaced when the item is immersed in water.  For each mL of water displaced, the volume is 1 cm3. 

Objective(s):

● Investigate to conclude that volume of a rectangular prism = l × b × h.

Competency: 

Describe capacity as how much a container can hold something and volume as how much space is occupied by a solid.

Course Duration:

3 Hours

Teacher:

Ngawang