Explore container capacities - Teaching Presentation - Year 1

This presentation provides two days of teaching that cover the objectives:

• Draw pictograms and discuss what they show.
• Presenting data in a block graph

It includes starter activities, whole class teaching, group activities, practice sheets and mastery questions. It can be used on a variety of interactive whiteboards.
Day 1 Teaching
Show children 4 bowls, all of different sizes. These bowls were left in the 3 bears’ house. Remind children that to find out more about how much they hold, we can measure by filling each with cups of water. Demonstrate how to draw a pictogram to record the capacities measured in numbers of cups.

Day 2 Teaching
The Three Bears and Goldilocks have invited Jack and Jill for tea! The only problem is they have lots of different-sized glasses for their homemade lemonade. Measure the capacity of two of the glasses, modelling recording results in a table, then transferring data onto a block graph.

This teaching is part of Hamilton’s Year 1 Measures, Shape and Data block. Each Hamilton maths block contains a complete set of planning and resources to teach a term’s worth of objectives for one of the National Curriculum for England’s maths areas.