We took a look at capacity!
Our first step in studying capacity was to look through our lunch pails
to look for anything with liters (L) or milliliters (mL) on it. We
found all sorts of containers!
We organized the items in order from the smallest number to the largest number
to find out more about what a mL means and what a L means.
'Look...50mL is way smaller that 250mL....'
'This one is 39mL...'
Next...we needed to know how much a liter really was.
So...we used a juice box because so many of the students
are familiar with the size of a juice box. They tried to figure out
how many juice boxes made one liter.
After using the juice box to make one liter, we used some smaller
containers to make one liter. They discovered it took a lot
more scoops of the smaller container to make one liter.
Next we learned about mass!
Mass is measured in grams (g) and kilograms (kg) so we needed
to figure out what that would look like, and what that would feel like.
So...we headed right back to our lunch pails and found all sorts of
items labelled with grams.
They were on a mission to find items that had a mass greater than
a marker and items that had a smaller mass than the marker.
Challenge: Find something (s) that has about the same mass as the 1kg
bag of chocolate chips.
They searched the classroom to try and find things that would add up to
about 1kg...they had a good time trying to fit it all in the baskets.
Ask your children to find things in your cupboards and in the fridge
with g, kg, L, and mL and compare!!
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