Curriculum Guides

Grade Level: First Grade

Content Area: Measurement

Skills: Volume

Perquisites:

Instructional Practices: Estimations, Reasoning, and Connections

Materials: Water and measuring cups, five clear plastic bottles of the same size

Technology:

Activity:

Collect five empty clear plastic bottles of the same size. Put a different amount of water in each bottle, leaning one bottle empty and filling one bottle completely. Screw the lids tightly on the bottles. Let the children take turns lining up the bottles from full to empty.

Using water and measuring cups discover that it takes filling a ½ cup 2 times to make a cup and so on...

Theme Ideas: Any cooking unit, or Healthy Foods