Curriculum Guides

Grade Level: First Grade

Content Area: Measurement/Weight

Skills: Weight

Perquisites:

Instructional Practices: Estimation, Reasoning, and Connections

Materials: Pasta and scales

Technology:

Activity:

Place various kinds of pasta at a center such as shells, rorini, elbows, manicotti, cavatelli, bows, radiatore, ziti, and rigati. The children should sort the various. Using a primary balance scale, ask children to count and compare how many pasta bows weigh the same as five manicotti or five shells and so on...

Theme Ideas:

Unit on Stregs Nona, by Tommie dePaola