ALEX Learning Activity

  

Horrendous Soup

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  This learning activity provided by:  
Author: Emily Fogleman
System:Hoover City
School:Brock's Gap Intermediate School
  General Activity Information  
Activity ID: 1864
Title:
Horrendous Soup
Digital Tool/Resource:
Mr. Nussbaum- Horrendous Soup Game
Web Address – URL:
Overview:

Horrendous Soup is a game in which students have to make a recipe for the most disgusting soup they can imagine. Students progress through the game by adding ingredients to the soup. Some of the ingredients are measured in capacity, some are measured in mass, and some are measured in distance. This is a way to reinforce metric conversion skills. To successfully print out the recipe, students must demonstrate the ability to convert the amounts of ingredients to other metric units. For example, liters to milliliters and vice versa, grams to milligrams and vice versa, and millimeters to centimeters to meters.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Gap Project.
  Associated Standards and Objectives  
Content Standard(s):
Mathematics
MA2019 (2019)
Grade: 5
17. Convert among different-sized standard measurement units within a given measurement system and use these conversions in solving multi-step, real-world problems.
Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
  • Convert different-sized measurement units within the same system.
  • Solve multi-step word problems involving conversion of metric or customary units.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • Measurement system
  • US Customary
  • Metric
  • Unit
  • Conversion
  • Equivalent measurements
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • Strategies for converting a larger unit of measure to a smaller unit in the same system.
  • Relative size of customary and metric units of measure.
  • Strategies for converting between units of measure in the same system.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • Convert measurement units.
  • Solve multi-step word problems involving measurement conversions.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • the multiplicative relationship between units of measures given in the same measurement system is essential when converting units to a larger or smaller unit.
Diverse Learning Needs:
Essential Skills:
Learning Objectives:
M.5.17.1: Identify relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units, including km, m, cm; kg, g; lb, oz; l, ml; and hr, min, sec.
M.5.17.2: Express measurements in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit.
M.5.17.3: Solve two-step word problems.
M.5.17.4: Measure and estimate liquid volumes and masses of objects using standard units of grams (g), kilograms (kg), and liters (l).
M.5.17.5: Add, subtract, multiply, or divide to solve one-step word problems involving masses or volumes that are given in the same units, e.g., by using drawings (such as a beaker with a measurement scale) to represent the problem.
M.5.17.6: Recall basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts.

Prior Knowledge Skills:
  • Create a line plot with appropriate intervals.
  • Represent data on a line plot.
  • Apply strategies for solving problems involving all four operations with the fractional data.
  • Convert measurement units.
  • Solve mulit-step word problems involving measurement conversions.
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
M.AAS.5.17 Using vocalization, sign language, augmentative communication, or assistive technology, to tell time using an analog or digital clock to the half or quarter hour.
M.AAS.5.17a Use standard units to measure the weight and length of objects.
M.AAS.5.17b Sort a collection of coin according to their value.

Learning Objectives:

Students will convert units of capacity, mass, and distance using the metric system. 
  Strategies, Preparations and Variations  
Phase:
During/Explore/Explain, After/Explain/Elaborate
Activity:

This activity can be used as a practice tool during instruction on metric conversations, or as a quick assessment after the lesson has occurred. It cannot be used to teach the conversions themselves but should be used as a follow-up after students have learned the conversions. Students will play the game Horrendous Soup, in which students have to make a recipe for the most disgusting soup they can imagine using metric conversions.

Below the game are additional resources and interactives for students who may need additional support and practice on metric conversions. 
Assessment Strategies:

Beneath the game (on the same webpage) there are brief pdf assessments that can be used as quick exit tickets after playing the game. Teachers may also choose to use the game itself as an assessment and have students save or screenshot their correct recipe to be turned into the teacher. 
Advanced Preparation:

Teachers should play this game before showing it to students. When presenting it to the students, you will want to remind students not to spend too much time choosing the ingredients for their soup, as the "meat" of this interactive is after the students have chosen their ingredients. 

Note that students will only be given one opportunity to correct their recipe after submitting their initial responses before they will have to start over. This may become frustrating quickly for students who are struggling to accurately convert the measurements. 
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