Year 1 Volume and Capacity

 On Monday, the year 1s had their maths lesson outside, learning about the terms 'volume' and 'capacity'. First, the children were asked to transfer water from a large tub to another large tub, using only spoons. The children were very patient but they didn't even come close to completing the task. 

We talked about the size of the tubs vs the size of the spoons and introduced the word capacity. They decided that a tub with a smaller capacity would be easier to fill, so that's what we tried.

Success!

We then put the big tub back and the children decided that, in order to fill it, they needed something with a bigger capacity than their spoons. Alfie chose cups. 

Quick success!

We then put varying amounts of water into different containers and introduced the word 'volume'. The children had to decide which rub had the greatest volume of water in it. Some of these were trickier to decide than others. We measured the volume of water to check our predictions.