Year 1 Term 2-1 Week 02 Day 3 weight standard measures

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 order five objects from lightest to heaviest.

This lesson consists of:

• A differentiated starter – where children solve a series of addition sums using a range of mathematical equipment.

• An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire flipchart demonstrating how balance scales can be used to record the weight of five different objects using 10g weights as standard measures.

• 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 using standard measures. A recording sheet to record the weight of five objects and sort these from lightest to heaviest.

• A final AFL / Next Steps task, where children identify objects that have particular weights and then work out how much 2, 5 and 10 sets would weigh.