Comparing Weight

My teammate, Ms. Branch, came up with a great way to assess if the students understand how a balance scale works and if they have the ability to compare the weights of various objects. The students created a balance scale on construction paper out of a one inch strip of paper and a die-cut "v". They then chose two magazine pictures to glue on the scale to show which was the heaviest and which was the lightest. They then wrote comparative sentences to describe the weight of the objects.