Weight activities

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These fun and interactive activities are designed to teach young children the basic concepts of measurement, including length, weight, and volume. Whether you’re a teacher, parent, or caregiver, these activities are sure to engage and educate your preschoolers. From using their own body parts to measure objects to experimenting with different measuring tools.

Measuring weight is a fun and engaging topic for little learners to explore! These hands-on activities are perfect for the classroom!

Make a DIY balance with a few simple and inexpensive materials from the craft store. The balances are great for math activities, your science center, or STEM/discovery center in preschool and pre-k

These STEM challenge cards make measuring fun and easy. Students will love discovering whether one pile of objects is heavier than another.

Use this fun measurement activity for kids in your math or STEM learning center. Kids weigh containers of everyday objects in a bucket balance scale. They will have fun while learning the concepts of heavy and light and also learn to sort the objects by weight. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k and kindergarten classroom. This hands-on learning center can be used for any theme or lesson plans....just use thematic materials in the containers...ideas are included. #preschool #STEM #STEAM

Phew! I am one tired teacher! Our first week of Term 3 is almost over and my kidlets have worked super hard learning new concepts and practising skills. In Maths we've been looking at non-standard measurement, and in our Maths Time (group rotations) we have revised length, looked at weight as a new concept, and explored capacity before we formally learn about it next week. Here's a photo round-up of what we did! First was the review of length, after we had worked on it last term. I took this…

Kids will learn all about measuring with these 12 hands-on measuring activities for kids– including measuring with candy, Lego bricks, and Magna-Tiles! Follow our Math for Kids Pinterest board! Measurement is one of those math skills that we use pretty much everyday, whether we’re measuring ingredients for a recipe or figuring out how many …

Kids will love this simple center of gravity activity! Make craft sticks balance in crazy ways by adding weights. Fun science!

Here’s a fun fall math activity for kids! Build a simple PVC pipe balance that will allow kids to investigate the weight of a pumpkin. And really, there is nothing inherently “fall” about the balance, so if you build one you can use it all year long. We built a simple PVC pipe frame for […]