Lesson Plan 1

Title

Heavy and Light

Duration of lesson

70

Topic and Focus

Mass heavy and light

Year Level

Foundation

Class Size

16

Learning Intentions/Objectives:
Students will be able to:

Understand the difference between heavy and light

Key Vocabulary List: Heavy, Light, Scale

Australian Curriculum
Strand

Mathematics

Level: 1

Domain

Dimension

Measurement and
Geometry

Using units of measurements

Key elements of standards to which lesson is

focused/elaboration
Use direct and indirect comparisons to decide which is longer, heavier
or holds more, and explain reasoning in everyday
language (VCMMG078)

Assessment Strategies
Formative: students will be able to recognize the difference between heavy and light objects

Resources and Materials:

Light filled big box, heavy filled little box, heavy and light cut and paste activity

Stage of
lesson

Student Action /Tasks

Introduction

Watch Green
Anaconda again
Re-watch listing to
mass

Ask students to listen for things that may talk

about weight

Students to predict
which box will be
heavier.

Show students 2 boxes, one small and heavy, one

light and big ask which will be heavier and why
pass it around.

Body of
Lesson

Time

Teacher Action

Start a discussion about light and heavy

Conclusion

Students to have a
go at the light
heavy worksheet

Assist students who are struggling

Students to discuss
their findings

Ask students to clean up and make a circle to

discuss

Lesson Plan 2
Title

Heavy and Light

Duration of lesson

70

Topic and Focus

Mass heavy and light

Year Level

Foundation

Class Size

16

Learning Intentions/Objectives:
Students will be able to:

Understand the difference between heavy and light

Key Vocabulary List: Heavy, Light, Scale

Australian Curriculum
Strand

Mathematics

Level: 1

Domain

Dimension

Measurement and
Geometry

Using units of measurements

Key elements of standards to which lesson is

focused/elaboration
Use direct and indirect comparisons to decide which is longer, heavier
or holds more, and explain reasoning in everyday
language (VCMMG078)

Assessment Strategies
Formative: students will be able to recognize the difference between heavy and light objects

Resources and Materials:

Coloured paper bags filled with various objects, worksheets

Stage of
lesson

Student Action /Tasks

Introduction

Watch Green
Anaconda again
Re-watch listing to
mass

Body of
Lesson

Students to predict
which bag will be
heavier.
Students to have a
go at the worksheet
as they go.

Time

Teacher Action

Ask students to listen for things that may talk

about weight

Ask students to break up into two groups. In each

group there will be 4 coloured bags, each with
different things. They will have to decipher what
bag is heavier, which is lighter, the order they
should go in and what might be in the bags.
Once each group has had a go at the first 4 bags,
they swap over so every student has tried 8 bags in
total.
Assist students who are struggling
Start a discussion about light and heavy

Conclusion

Students to discuss
their findings

Ask students to clean up and make a circle to

discuss, in the discussion we will talk about each
group of bags, identifying the heaviest, lightest and
the ones that fit in between.
We will also guess whats in the bag and have fun
opening the bags and seeing if our predictions were
correct.

Heavy and Light Paper Bags

Which colour bag is the heaviest?

Which colour bag is the lightest?

Order the bags from heaviest to lightest.

What do you think is in the blue bag?

8

What do you think is in the red bag?

What do you think is in the green bag?

What do you think is in the yellow bag?