A Fun Comparing Capacity Year 1 and Foundation Activity

Enhance your students’ understanding of measurement with our comparing capacity year 1 and foundation activity! This cut-and-paste worksheet helps young learners grasp the concept of capacity while practising their fine motor skills. Students will enjoy sorting everyday objects such as a salt shaker, vase, bucket and teacup from the smallest to the largest capacity.

Included in this comparing capacity year 1 resource: 

• Colour cut-and-paste worksheet
• Black-and-white cut-and-paste worksheet
• Answer key

Make capacity comparison fun and interactive with this hands-on activity that works wonderfully as independent practice, a maths station activity or a guided group assignment! 

Supplement Our Volume and Capacity Kindergarten Worksheet

This volume and capacity kindergarten worksheet is a great way to introduce your students to capacity. But don’t stop there! Here are some ideas for some additional comparing capacity year 1 activities that will get your students moving.

• Water Stations – Set up stations where students can pour water from one container to another. Ask them to predict whether a small container or a large container will hold more water, and then test their ideas. 
• Estimating Containers – Show students a few containers and ask them to estimate how many snap cubes will fit in each container, then test their hypothesis.
• Hands-On Capacity Sort – Give students a set of containers and items. Ask them to sort the containers into groups of ‘small,’ ‘medium’ and ‘large’ based on how many items they think each one can hold. After sorting, let them test their ideas by filling the containers. You can also have them order the containers from least to greatest capacity, like this worksheet! 

Download These Capacity More or Less Worksheets

These capacity more or less worksheets are easy to download, print and use. Just click the drop-down arrow on the download button and choose between the Google Slides and PDF format of this resource.  

This resource was created by April Tierney, a teacher and a Teach Starter collaborator.

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