Capacity

Exploring capacity using hands on activities. I love that the kids actually measured how many liters the sink would hold!

Play with coloured water and plastic bottles and learn about simple capacity and measuring maths concepts at the same time! Welcome to another activity in our Playful Maths series, which we are co-hosting with Learn with Play at Home. We focus on making maths playful, fun and totally hands-on and worksheet free! Each activity uses recycled...Read More »

This blog post has a variety of hands on measurement activities that will keep students engaged in their learning. These hands on non standard measurement activities involve learning to measure length, capacity and mass. Use these fun ideas in your math lessons to teach whole class concepts and use the activities as rotations, stations, centers and more! Includes a hands on worksheet that is FREE. Activities are suitable for preschool, Kindergarten, Prep and first grade. {prek, 1st

Happy Saint Patrick's Day! You've made it through another year of wearing green and chasing leprechauns in your classroom. It's time to pull out the plastic eggs, rabbit ears, and jellybeans. I have a center idea for measuring capacity with nonstandard units. A teacher's assistant or a parent volunteer can manage the area for you once you've set things up. It's best of have only 1 or 2 children use the center at a time. This way, every child gets "HANDS ON" practice with measuring the…

This blog post is FULL of great basic measurement principles to help you teach math and science education for your preschool, Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade classroom or homeschool students. You can introduce length, capacity, mass, AND volume with this great ideas and activities. Check out the kinesthetic ideas, FREE download, great resources, and more. {preK, Kinder, Kindy, first, second graders}

Grab our free measuring capacity worksheets to master the concept of reading the amount of liquid using appropriate measuring tools.

This anchor chart is all about metric units of capacity and volume. Getting students to make connections between the unit of measurement and what each

If you're not teaching nonstandard measurement in your kindergarten classroom... start... start NOW! This is exactly the kind of hands-on, exploration based learning that is growing more and more absent in K classrooms. And, as one of my favorite math concepts to teach, I'm excited to share with you some ideas and resources to use in your classroom! Videos are a great hook into a concept. Let's face it, kids like videos. My kids LOVE LOVE LOVE Sid the Science Kid. He's a staple in our…

ACTIVITY 1: Learning Outcomes: By the end of this activity, students will be able to compare volumes of liquid using non-standard measurements. Materials: Five different bowls, glass, sets of self-made manila cards, “Vitagen®” as encouragement Procedures: 1. Teacher begins the lesson by comparing volumes of liquid using two different bowls and asks the students which bowls is larger or smaller. 2. Teacher distributes two students in a group and gives them five different dimensions of bowls…

Measurement and Data Classroom Posters - Math Vocabulary - Weight - Capacity - Height - Length #klindergarten #firstgrade #kindergartenmath #firstgrademath