Balance Scale Buddies: Heavier or Lighter Game

Which is heavier, a feather or an apple? The cat asks questions like this about a feather, an apple, a watermelon or an elephant. Balance Scale Buddies is a heavier and lighter game for kindergarten and 1st grade. In Read the Scale your child taps the heavier or lighter box. In Balance with Cubes they add and remove cubes until the scale is level. The game is included in the 14-day free trial, no card needed, and works in the browser on iPad, Chromebook or laptop.

Balance Scale Buddies game cover: comparing weight practice for K–1

What your child does

The cat asks "Which is heavier?" or "Which is lighter?" about things like a feather, an apple, a watermelon or an elephant. In Read the Scale your child taps the heavier or lighter box. In Balance with Cubes they add and remove cubes until the scale is level.

The skill it builds

Comparing weight and measuring with cubes. If an answer is off, the cat explains that the heavier side goes down, like a seesaw.

The game's listing notes align it to Common Core 1.MD.A.2, K.MD.A.1, K.MD.A.2.

How to try it

Balance Scale Buddies comes with Bright Minds Club membership. Start a 14-day free trial (no card needed), or try one of the 5 free games first with no account: Piggy Bank Coin Counting, Which Is Worth More?, Shape Safari, Word Builder, Tick Tock Time.

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At a glance

Grades
Kindergarten and 1st grade
Subject
Math
Skill
Measuring, fractions and sorting
Learning trail
Math trail, stop 59 of 60
Access
Members (14-day free trial)
Good to know
A “Tap me for a hint” helper

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