7. Jugs and Mugs

Make and Enjoy Lemon Drink

You will need

Half a lemon, a pinch of salt, one spoon of sugar and one glass of water.

Half a lemon
A pinch of salt
One spoon of Sugar
One glass of water

How to make it:

Steps to make a lemon drink are shown. The first step shows a glass of water, then a boy is squeezing half a lemon in the glass, then a spoon of sugar is added in it and last step shows mixing the drink with a spoon.

Guess and then find out:

How many drops of lemon juice do you get from half a lemon?
How many drops of lemon juice do you get from a full lemon?
How many drops of lemon juice fill one spoon?

Enjoy your lemon drink!

To make a drink, locally available material can be used or the name of the drink can also be substituted. The focus should be on volume.

For making 6 glasses of lemon drink –

How many lemons will you need?

How many spoons of sugar will you take?

Lemon Drink Stall at a Village Fair

There is a fair in Chaitra's village. Chaitra, Nazim and Aneesh want to put up a stall to sell lemon drink. They make a bucket full of lemon drink.

They use two different sizes of glasses.

There is a fair in which there are many stalls and swings. In the middle, there is a stall in which two men and one woman are selling lemon drink. There is a bucket full of drink kept on the table and a big glass and a small glass are also kept on the table

Aneesh got jug.

Do you think it is easier to pour into a glass from a jug than bucket?

Nazim found that two big glasses fill the jug.

Shabnam wants to buy one jug full of lemon drink.

How much does she need to pay?

Chaitra found that two small glasses fill one big glass.

How many small glasses of lemon drink will fill the jug?

How many small glasses will fill half the jug?

Fun in Filling Vessels

A boy is putting water in a pot with a bottle. A wok, a vessel, a jug, a pressure cooker and two buckets are also kept there.

Find out how many cups of water will fill your bottle.

First guess and then try it out.

Now, fill a different bottle with the same cup.

Which bottle holds less water?

Try it with another bottle.

Which bottle holds the least water?

Sunaina and Jaspreet brought different vessels from the kitchen. They had a jug, a glass, a mug, a pot and a bowl.

They filled each of these with a cup.

A jug, a mug, a glass, a bowl and a pot.

Guess which vessel holds the least water.

Which vessel holds the most water?

Now, you collect different vessels from your kitchen.

Use the same cup to fill each of them.

Count the number of cups of water each of them can hold.

First guess and then do it.

The vessel you used	Cups of water to fill it

Ring the one which holds more water.

(a)

A bucket and a mug.

(b)

A cup and a small plate.

(c)

A wide pot and a narrow pot.

(d)

A small pot and a big pot.

Rani and the Milkman

Anil is a milkman. He gives the same amount of milk at Rani's house every day. He uses a mug three times to fill Rani's milk pot.

One day Rani's mother gave her a different pot to take milk. Every day Rani's pot would fill to the top. But today Rani found that the pot was not filled completely.

A milkman is standing with his bicycle and two big containers of milk outside a girl's house. The girl with a pot in her hand is looking at it and thinking that the milk in the pot is less.

Do you think Anil has given Rani less milk? Help her.

Find out

How much milk does your mother buy every day?

Try Yourself

Take five different types of big vessels from your kitchen.

Fill all of them one by one with one jug full of water.

What do you see? Why?

Talk to your friends about it.

Thirsty Crow

Chirpy crow was very thirsty. It looked everywhere but could not find water. Suddenly it saw a pitcher (matka). When it tried to drink water, it found there was very little water in the pitcher.

It saw pebbles lying nearby.

A crow is sitting on the rim of a pot, filled with little water. There is one more pot kept near it and some pebbles are lying nearby too.
I have an idea!

It put the pebbles into the pitcher one by one.

The crow is putting pebbles in the pot filled with little water.

The water came up.

Chirpy drank water and flew away.

The water in the pot came up and the crow is sitting on its rim.

What will you do if you were at the crow's place?

Do You Want to Be Like Chirpy?

Do you want to know how the water in the pitcher came up?

Take two glasses of the same size.

Fill half of each glass with water.

You have to put tamarind (imli) seeds in the first glass to raise the water to the top. Guess how many seeds you will need to put in.

Now, do it.

Count the number of seeds used.

Now put the same number of marbles in the second glass.

What happens?

Repeat it with stones.

What happens now? Why?

Talk about it in the class.

There is a girl and a boy and between them, two glasses are kept, one with water and the other with tamarind seeds put in it.

Water is Useful

Find out how much water (in mugs or buckets) is used in your house for each of the following.

A child is bathing using a mug and bucket full of water is lying near him.

A man is taking out clothes from a bucket and putting them on a clothesline for drying.

A woman is washing utensils.

A girl is drinking water from a glass.

Guess and then find out:

a) How many mugs of water fill one bucket?

b) How many buckets of water do you use to take a bath?

c) How many mugs of water do you use to take a bath?

There is a balloon and space is given for writing, how much water will it.
How much water will fill a balloon?

There is a water gun and space is given for writing, how much water will fill it.
How much water is needed to fill a water gun (pichkari)?

A camel is saying that it can drink nine buckets of water at once and asking that how many buckets can two camels drink at once?

I can drink 9 buckets of water at once. How many buckets can two camels drink at once?

Children should be encouraged to do the activity at home and note the observations. A discussion can be held in the class to compare the volumes of various vessels used by children.

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