Lesson Three – Kitchen Scales

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise using a set of kitchen scales to correctly measure in grams the individual masses of different types of food that could be used for a range of meal recipes.

The class can explain and model how to use the divisions on a scale to mark the mass of different foods found in a kitchen using the correct measurement units.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using a set of kitchen scales to correctly measure in grams the individual masses of different types of food that could be used for a range of meal recipes

Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets to select and record the mass of different types of foods that can be found in a kitchen using a set of scales in grams marking each measurement correctly on the scale divisions.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use a set of scales in grams to correctly measure the mass of different objects.

This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to estimate, measure and compare the mass of different sized objects using standard units of measurement for 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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