Chapter 10

Weight

1st Grade: Chapter 10 Outline

Week 21 - Week 22

Essential Questions:

    • How can a balance be used to compare weights?
    • How can non-standard units be used to measure weight?
    • What does it mean to have a precise measurement?

Content:

Students will know and understand:

    • how to compare weight using terms such as light, lighter, lightest, heavy, heavier, heaviest.
    • how to measure weight using a balance.
    • common objects as non-standard units to measure and compare weight.

Skills:

Students Will:

    • use base-ten blocks to recognize, read, and write numbers to 1,000.
    • count on by 1's, 10's, and 100's to 1,000.
    • use base-ten blocks and a place-value chart to read, write, and represent numbers to 1,000.
    • read and write numbers to 1,000 in standard form, expanded form, and word form.
    • use the term "unit" when writing the weight of things.
    • explain why there is a difference in a measurement when using different non-standard units.
    • arrange objects according to their weights.

Assessment

Chapter 10 Assessment: Weight

Formative Test: Common

Upon completion of Unit 10:

  • 1.OA.D.8. Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating to three whole numbers.
  • MP.1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
  • MP.2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
  • MP.5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
  • MP.7. Look for and make use of structure.