Tuesday, October 26, 2010

ACTIVITY 1 : USING NON-STANDARD UNITS

Learning Outcomes;

By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to measure and compare volume of liquids by using non-standard units correctly.

Prior Knowledge;

Pupils had learnt how to compare objects: more or less, many or a few, high or low during their previous lesson while learning A Whole Numbers.

Teaching Aids;

Different sizes of containers, a pail of water, 

Vocabulary;

more, less, empty, half full, full, 

Procedures;

1. Divide the pupils into group of four to do work in their cooperative learning.

2. Appoint one student to be the recorder in the group

3. Give each group 5 set of containers of different sizes, a pail of water and a small cup as the measurement tool.

4. Each group will record the number of cup needed to fill the water in every containers into the form given.

* Also teach the pupils estimation such as half full, full and empty


Conclusion;

For this activities pupils will bear in mind that the volume of liquid will be determined based on the containers used. The more bigger containers the more quantities of water is needed to fill in. 

Table 1: Measure volume of Liquid using non-standard unit.




Sample worksheet:





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