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My drink bottle
This hands-on learning experience asks students to investigate the capacity of various containers. They use direct and indirect comparisons to check their estimates and decide which containers hold the most.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Foundation
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Teaching strategies
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Mass and capacity
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9MFM01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P2)
- Publisher
- Queensland University of Technology
- Copyright
- © Queensland University of Technology. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Keywords
- direct comparison indirect comparison
- Other terms
- YuMi Deadly
- File type
- File size
- 0.4 MB
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