Measuring the Volume of Water.

TEACHING ACTIVITY (FOR LOW ACHIEVER STUDENT) 

Measuring liquid is quiet difficult for students. For low achiever students, the process could be complicated for them. They might need more practices to make them more proficient. A simple but easy to understand practices would help this low achiever students much.

One activity can be shared here for a low achiever students. 

We can start by having bowl and glass, together with a graduated cylinder. The bowl and the glass could be different in size. I can suggest you to have a big glass and the small bowl. The size of the graduated cylinder must be enough to measure the water from the glass and the bowl.

First, put 100 ml of water into the big glass, and 200 ml into the small bowl. Put those glass and bowl aside, and let the students to guess which one of the glass and the bowl contain more water. 

For a high achiever students, they could answer this easily with the correct answer without confusion. But for the low achiever students, this process will make them confuse. The size of the glass and the bowl would be a matter for them to identify the amount of the water. 

They could make a mistake in doing a comparison. The comparison must be measured on their capacity instead of their height. For the low achiever students, they might measure the water based on the tools that contain the water. 

As the glass is bigger than the bowl, they could choose the water in the glass as the answer, without further measurement of the capacity of the water in that small bowl.

So, the next step is to have a graduated cylinder. This cylinder functions to measure the exact volume of water in the glass and the bowl.

Pour the water from the glass into the cylinder. Ask the students to measure the volume of water in the cylinder,  and write it on a piece of paper. After that, pour the water back into the glass, and repeat the same way to the water in the bowl. Pour the water from the bowl into the cylinder and measure the volume of the water. Don't forget to remind the students to write their answer onto the paper. 

In this activity, teacher could assist the low achiever students to read the volume of the water in the cylinder.

After the students come with the answer, the teacher let the students to make a comparison of between the answers. Which one of the big glass and the small bowl has more water. Students should use their answer from their activity just now to make comparison and find the answer.

For a correct answer, the small bowl contain more water (200ml) than the big glass (100 ml).

This activity is simple and suitable for a low achiever student. It is easy for them to understand and do the process of measuring the water, moreover with the assistance from the teacher.