Your students can examine the packaging on supermarket items to find the metric unit used to describe the mass or capacity with these versatile worksheets.

You might like to provide the students with a selection of supermarket items. Alternatively, they could go on a scavenger hunt to find some around the school. Your students could even draw items from memory and their own experiences.

The activity could be focused on mass, capacity or both. Your students could examine the metric units of millilitres, litres, grams or kilograms separately or they could do a mix of them all. Different versions of the worksheets are available to allow flexibility. They are also differentiated with the number of items needing to be examined increasing with each version.