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Kitchen Scales
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise using a set of kitchen scales correctly to measure and compare the mass of different foods that have been stored in a kitchen working with units in grams.
The class can explain and model how to read and record the mass of the measured foods on a set of kitchen scales with divisions marked in grams correctly.
Download this teaching pack including classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using a set of kitchen scales correctly to measure and compare the mass of different foods that have been stored in a kitchen working with units in grams
Activities in this teaching pack include worksheets to practise reading and recording the mass of different objects using scale divisions for grams and a template to model how to use a set of kitchen scales to measure and compare the mass of different types of food in grams.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record how to use a set of kitchen scales to measure and compare the mass of different types of food in grams.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to identify and record how to measure, calculate and compare the masses of different things used in a kitchen working with units in grams and kilograms. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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