1. Circle the right weight.
2. Circle the sentences that make sense.
Use known weights of things to estimate the weight of other things.
about
f. Mr. Garrison, the teacher, weighs 30 kg.
g. Larry is in 8th grade and weighs 50 kg.
h. Amy's backpack full of school books weighs 3 kg.
Volume
1. Fill the pint jar with water. Pour it all into the quart jar. Then fill the pint jar again and pour it into the quart jar. Is it now full (or close to full)?
It should be. It takes ___ pints of water to fill 1 quart jar.
2. Pour out water from your full quart jar back into the pint jar until the pint jar is full.
Is your quart jar now half full? (It should be.) How much water is left in the quart jar? ____ pint.
3. Find out how many times you need to fill the 1-cup measuring cup with water and pour it into the pint jar until the pint jar is full. ___ times.
1 pint is ___ cups.
4. Find out how many times you need to fill the 1-cup measuring cup with water and pour it into the quart jar until the quart jar is full. ___ times.
1 quart is ___ cups.
5. Find out if your coffee cup measures MORE or LESS than the a 1-cup measuring cup - or exactly 1 cup. Do the same with the drinking glass.
Volume means how much space something takes.
A sandcastle takes a certain amount of space. A bottle of water takes space. A book takes space. But how much?
In this lesson you will learn how we measure the volume of water (or other liquids).
You will need
z water in a bucket or other big container
z a few food containers
z a coffee cup
z a drinking glass
z a quart jar
z a pint jar
z a 1-cup measuring cup
6. You need three different empty food containers. Find out how many cups of water you can fit into them. Write an “X” in the “and a little more” column if you cannot fit another 1-cup of water into your container, but you could fit a little more.
7. At the next supper or breakfast time, do a little experiment. Before eating, measure exactly one cup of the food you're going to eat and then put it on your plate. Will it fill you up?
Is it too much or too little food? For example, you can find out these things:
z Will 1 cup of yogurt fill you up? Is it too much, too little, or just right?
z Will 1 cup of oatmeal fill you up? Is it too much, too little, or just right?
z Will 1 cup of pasta fill you up? Is it too much, too little, or just right?
8. Now that you have learned about cups, pints, and quarts, fill in numbers on the blanklines.
9. Do the same but without pictures.
how many cups and a little more?
Container 1 Container 2 Container 3
z A quart is abbreviated with “qt”. 5 qt means 5 quarts.
z A pint is abbreviated with “pt”. 3 pt means 3 pints.
z A cup is abbreviated with “C”. 2 C means 2 cups.
a. = ___ b. = ___ c. = ___
d. = ___
e.
= ___
f. = ___ g. = ___
a. 1 qt = ___ pt 1/2 qt = ___ pt
b. 1 pt = ___ C 2 pt = ___ C
c. 1 qt = ___ pt 2 qt = ___ pt
d. 4 C = ___ qt 2 C = ___ qt
10. Circle the amount that holds more liquid volume. Circle both if they hold the same amount.
11. Solve the word problems. Give you answer in a reasonable unit - either “so many” cups, pints, or quarts.
a. Mom bought 1 quart of ice cream and divided it equally among four children.
How much ice cream did each child get?
b. During one day, Dad drank 1 pint of coffee, 1 pint of juice, and 1 quart of water.
What is the total amount of liquid did he drink during the day?
c. A 1-quart juice box is half full. How many cups of juice could you pour out of it?
12. Fill in with the words: cup, pint, or quart.
a. Mary drank 2 ______s of tea at the party.
b. Mom bought 1 ______ of yogurt for the four children.
c. Ron was quite thirsty and so he drank a whole ________ of water.
d. The large pitcher can hold 2 _________s of juice.
e. After pouring out 2 ________s of juice, the one quart container was left only half full.
a. OR b. OR
c. OR
d. OR
e. OR f. OR
g. OR
h.
OR
13. Test yourself!
Put one gallon of water into a bucket, preferably a 5-gallon bucket. (Four quarts make one gallon.) Can you carry it?
Put another gallon of water into the same bucket. Can you still carry it?
How many gallons of water can you carry in the bucket?
Now put that many gallons into another bucket as well, and try to carry one such bucket in each hand.
How many gallons of water can you carry using two buckets?
Water can get pretty heavy!
14. a. How many quart jars of water would it take to fill a 5-gallon bucket?
b. Mom bought 1 gallon of bleach, and used 1 cup of it in the washer.
How many times can she use that amount before she runs out of bleach?
Gallons
One gallon is a larger measure of volume than even one quart. You use gallons when the liquid or other thing takes a lot of space, even more than a few quarts.
You might have heard about these items. Fill in some more items that you have heard the word “gallon” used with.
z a 5-gallon bucket
z a 1-gallon milk bottle
z a 1/2-gallon milk bottle
z a car's gas tank is so many gallons
z a water heater can hold so many gallons
z a bathtub can hold so many gallons
z A very large pot can hold 1 gallon of soup or stew.
z _____________________________________
z _____________________________________
One gallon of water is so much that you can fill FOUR quarts out of it.
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It would be a lot to drink!