Gallons, Pints, Quarts, Cups

Do your students have a hard time remembering how many quarts in a gallon? pints in a quart? and so on? One of the best ways for them to remember these is to provide physical hands on experience. For example, using a cup and filling up a pint container to see how many cups it takes to fill it. Have students bring in various containers for gallons, pints, quarts, and cups. Set up a station so they can experiment with these units of measurement.

Here are also a few other resources that may be helpful:

Gallon Man (Great visual and possible art project!)

http://www.twogetherexpress.com/gallon%20man2.htm

http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L513

Specific Directions for Gallon Man http://home.att.net/~clnetwork/math/mrgallon.pdf

Parts for the Gallon Man http://home.att.net/~clnetwork/math/mrgalparts.pdf

A Story about Gallon Man

Mr. Gallon Man activity with Questions

Gallon Man Song to tune of Alice the Camel

http://home.att.net/~clnetwork/math/mrgalsong.pdf

(Here is a link to the audio tune for Alice the Camel, as I didn't know this one!!)

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/sally.htm