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glasses of different sizes

Capacity of Different Containers

Learning Goals: Oral Language Skills, Spatial Sense, Spatial Visualization

    • Start this activity with reading a book about measuring or about measuring liquids.
    • Following the book, bring different containers with different sizes to explain the capacities of the different containers.
    • Encourage students to make an hypothesis and experiment with pouring liquids into different containers. 

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