Year 1 Term 2-1 Week 02 Day 1 comparing weights

A differentiated starter, introduction for both ActivInspire and Smartboard, and 3 way differentiated activity with an extension activity for use in Continuous Provision and AFL / Next Steps plenary class activity supported by a youtube video of the complete lesson for distance learning…

Learning Objective: To compare 2 or more objects using the terms heavy, light, heavier and lighter.

This lesson consists of:

• A differentiated starter – where children use a 100 square to recognise ten more and ten less of a given set of numbers. .

• An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire flipchart demonstrating how balance scales can be used to compare the weight of two objects, complete with a recap of the maths vocabulary of heavier and lighter.

• A youtube video link for distance learning introducing the starter, the main part of the lesson and the AFL / Next Steps plenary.

• A series of tasks requiring the use of balance scales to compare the weight of a range of common classroom objects. A recording sheet to help the children understand what happens to balance scale when one object is heavier than another.

• A final AFL / Next Steps task, where children consider whether size is directly linked to weight.