How Heavy Is It?

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Materials

Items of varying weights, such as books, boxes, bricks, feathers, pencils, Styrofoam, wood blocks

Instructions

1. Put out two items at a time. Without letting the children pick up the items, ask them which of the two they think is the heaviest.

2. After the children have made a guess, let them pick up the items to see if they were right.

3. Repeat the game with the other items.

4. If you want to make this more difficult, add a third item.More to doMath: Chart the children's answers to see how many times they guessed correctly and incorrectly.

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