Lesson One – Kitchen Scales
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise using kitchen scales to estimate and measure the mass of different types of foods using measurement units recorded in grams and kilograms.
The class can explain and model how to show the measured masses on a set of scales with divisions for grams and kilograms to identify each measurement for a type of food correctly.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using kitchen scales to estimate and measure the mass of different types of foods using measurement units recorded in grams and kilograms
Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated worksheets to record the mass of different types of food that have been measured correctly on a set of kitchen scales recording each identified measurement in units for grams and kilograms.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to kitchen scales to estimate and measure the mass of foods in grams and kilograms.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to solve problems by measuring, estimating, comparing and calculating the mass of different objects using standard measurement units. 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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