🥤 Capacity - How Much Can It Hold? 🥤

Super Fun Lesson for Grade 1 Friends!
Ontario Curriculum - Measuring how much a container can hold

📌 Learning Goals 🎯

Hello my wonderful Grade 1 superstars! ❤️

Today we will learn:
• What capacity means (how much a container can hold)
• How to measure capacity using non-standard units (like cups, spoons, blocks)
• Compare which container holds more or less
• Use words like full, half full, empty, more, less
• Have fun pouring and measuring with water or rice!

1. What is Capacity? 🪣

Capacity tells us how much a container can hold.

We can fill it with water, rice, sand, or beans.

2. Full, Half Full, and Empty 🥛

Full → The cup is completely filled with water 🥤

Half Full → The cup is filled halfway 🥤

Empty → No water in the cup 🥤

3. Measuring Capacity with Non-Standard Units 🥄

Example 1: How many small cups of water fit into the big bowl?

🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄 → The big bowl holds 6 small cups!

Example 2: How many spoons of rice fit into the jar?

🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄 → The jar holds 8 spoons of rice.

Example 3: Which holds more?
A small yogurt cup or a big water bottle?

The big water bottle holds much more!

4. Comparing Capacity 🔍

The red bucket holds more water than the blue cup.
Red bucket = 12 small cups
Blue cup = 4 small cups
Red bucket holds more!

The spoon holds less than the mug.
Spoon = 1 unit
Mug = 6 units

5. Fun Activities to Practice 🎲

  • Fill different containers with water or rice and count how many small cups fit.
  • Line up containers from the one that holds the least to the one that holds the most.
  • Play “Pour and Measure” — pour water from one cup to another.
  • Find 5 things at home and guess which holds more.
  • Make a chart: draw containers and write how many scoops they hold.
  • Use sand or beans in the sandbox to measure capacity.

6. You Are a Capacity Expert! 🏆

Congratulations my dear Grade 1 friend!

You now know all about capacity!

Keep measuring how much things can hold — you are a great scientist! 🌟