You Will Need
- Items to weigh: large pebble, potato, bag of potatoes, cotton wool, books
- Bucket balance scales
- Kitchen scales
- 1kg weight, 100g weights, 1g weights
- ‘Heavier and lighter’ (see resources)
- ‘Comparing Weights’ recording sheet (see resources)
- ‘Weighing Tins’ activity sheet (see resources)
- A selection of objects to weigh, e.g. books of different sizes, bag of potatoes, bag of rice or sugar (weighing exactly 1kg), bag of apples
- 2 large sheets of paper
- Marbles, wooden bricks (or similar uniform objects)
- Fruit and vegetables, including an apple
- Tins of food with the weight on the labels covered
- Flapjack ingredients