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Capacity Through Cultural Baking

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Capacity Through Cultural Baking

Capacity Through Cultural Baking

Cultural baking ingredients and measuring tools

🥄 Part 1: Measurement Vocabulary

1. Match the English words with their te reo Māori translations:
1. Measure
2. Hand
3. Food
4. Full
A. Kai
B. Rāwhiti
C. Ringa
D. Kī
2. Circle the correct unit for measuring capacity:

Metres

Litres

Kilograms

Degrees Celsius

📏 Part 2: Recipe Scaling

3. Our original recipe calls for 500ml of milk. If we double the recipe, how much milk do we need?
4. The recipe needs 250ml of water. If we halve the recipe, how much water do we use?
5. Fill in the missing amounts for our scaled recipes:

Original recipe: 1 litre of flour, 500ml of milk, 250ml of oil

Doubled recipe: _______ litres of flour, _______ ml of milk, _______ ml of oil

Halved recipe: _______ ml of flour, _______ ml of milk, _______ ml of oil

🥛 Part 3: Capacity Comparison

6. Which container holds more? Circle your answer:

A 750ml measuring jug

A 1 litre water bottle

7. Check all the containers that could hold exactly 1 litre:

Four 250ml cups

Two 500ml bottles

Ten 100ml containers

One 900ml jug

8. Put these amounts in order from smallest to largest:

2 litres, 500ml, 1.5 litres, 750ml

Smallest: _________ → _________ → _________ → _________ :Largest

🍞 Part 4: Cultural Baking Reflection

9. Draw your favourite measuring tool from today's baking activity:
10. Describe how your group worked together during the baking activity (use manaakitanga - caring for others):
11. What did you learn about capacity that you can use when cooking at home?
12. How might different cultures measure ingredients when they don't have measuring cups?

🧮 Part 5: Problem Solving

13. Aroha's whānau recipe uses 3 cups of flour. If 1 cup equals 250ml, how many millilitres of flour does she need?
14. Tane has a 2-litre jug that is half full. How many millilitres of liquid are in the jug?
15. Circle the mathematical language that describes capacity:

More than

Less than

Half full

Heavier

Empty

Taller

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