Capacity Capers: Water Relay!
Added: 27 Mar 2020
Contributor:
PDST
Resource type:
Game
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Lesson Plan
A fun and engaging capacity based lesson plan/activity requiring students to measure, compare and order liquids. In relay teams, the students will work together using a sponge to move 1000ml of water from one container to the other.
How it maps to the curriculum
- 3-4
- Mathematics
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Capacity
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- estimate, compare, measure and record capacity using appropriate metric units (l, ml) and selecting suitable instruments of measurement
- rename units of capacity in l and ml 1500 ml = 1 l 500 ml
- solve and complete practical tasks and problems involving the addition and subtraction of units ofcapacity (l, ml)
