Mathematics Unit Planner Juniors 2015 Term 4

Content Area: Capacity Big Ideas: Comparison, Conservation, Unit of Measure

Key Ideas
What is the
mathematics?

Understandings
What do you want the students
to notice?
We understandWe canWe
know

Comparison

We know that we can compare

objects by looking at them, by
pouring one into another, using a tool
to compare their capacities.

Language

Capacity is the amount a container

can hold.

Unit of Measure
Holds More or Holds
Less

We know that when measuring the

capacity we can state whether the
container holds more or less.

Skills
What do you want the
students to be able to
use?

Key Vocabulary
What language should
they be using?

Curriculum Documents
What is the expected
standard?

Compare the capacity of

two containers using formal
and informal tools.
Estimating which container
can hold more or less.
Use the language of
comparison (more, less,
least, most, same)

Size
Estimating
Comparing
Nearly full
Capacity
Full
Empty
Half full
Holds the same
Less than
More than
Most
Least

AusVELS:
Foundation:
- Use direct and indirect
comparisons to decide which is
holds more and less and explain
reasoning in everyday language
(ACMMG006)
Year 1:
- Measure and compare the
capacities of pairs of objects
using uniform informal units
(ACMMG019)

Use suitable language when

comparing capacity of
different containers. E.g.
holds more and hold less,
holds half. Using informal
tools such as a plastic cup.

Focus

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

Session 4

Sessio
n 5

L.I to understand
that capacity is the
amount a container
holds.
L.I to compare two
different container
sizes to see which
one holds more.

L.I to use the

language of
comparison. (More,
less, least, most,
same).

L.I to compare
different shaped
containers.
L.I to demonstrate that
sometimes the capacity
can stay the same.

L.I to find a container

that holds more than
the chosen one.

L.I