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Curated OER

Make Mine Turkey

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Young scholars compare foods available for the Pilgrims' Thanksgiving with contemporary Thanksgiving foods. After reading information about the first Thanksgiving, pupils create a menu and compute the cost of a turkey dinner, using...
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Curated OER

Pumpkins By the Pound

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Use pumpkins of various sizes to experiment with weight and perimeter. First the class lifts the pumpkins one by one, estimating each pumpkin's weight. They arrange the pumpkins from lightest to heaviest, and then string weigh each one...
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Curated OER

Plant Parts We Eat

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
I bet the kids in your class will love to eat their vegetables after an engaging lesson about edible plants. They read information about vegetables and edible plants, sort vocabulary words, identify plant parts, measure and graph the...
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Curated OER

Garden Grid

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
Basically, your class reads about different garden plants from an included handout and seed packets that you provide, and then uses a grid to plan out where to place the plants. They can practice counting with the seeds, grouping,...
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Curated OER

Agriculture in Motion

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Youngsters learn about simple machines that could be used on a farm.  They learn about agricluture, listen to a farmer speak, compare and contrast different farm machines, and then design their own. Note that although the publisher...
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Curated OER

Working Watermelon

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
You're going to wish you had a watermelon for this lesson! Class members read about watermelons and make a salad in class to sample. They also perform estimates, measurements and calculations on a watermelon. They predict what percentage...
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Ag In The Outfield

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Young scholars explore baseball. This is a cross-curricular plan that includes math, history, and agriculture. Pupils use their five senses to observe the materials a baseball is made from and identify the agricultural products used. In...
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Curated OER

Mighty Earth Movers

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Note that although the publisher lists almost all of the Common Core standards for both math and language arts, you will most likely want to take the general topic and choose which area to focus on. Regarding math, pupils measure worms...
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: High Horse [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This task challenges a student to demonstrate understanding of measurement.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Estimate Length in Inches

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders will be able to estimate the lengths of objects by mentally partitioning the lengths into inches. A video, worksheets, and a detailed lesson plan are included.
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Measurement Teaching Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Measurement Teaching Theme provides an excellent collection of free sample worksheets, teacher resources, lesson plans and interactive media for the elementary grades.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Measuring With Mixie Bot

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Children can measure with a favorite character to understand the value of standardized units of measure, such as inches and feet. This activity will help them practice measuring and understand comparing the measurements of one item to...
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Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Measuring Length

For Students 1st - 6th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about measuring length with definitions, understanding different units to measure length, how to compare length, solved examples, and practice questions.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Strolling With My Gnomies, a Measuring Game

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Decide whether you want to measure in Standard or metric and at what level (i.e. inch, half inch or centimeter, millimeter) and begin practice. Computer will generate a line above the ruler and the player enters the length and checks for...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: How Big Is a Meter

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video compares objects to one meter and gives the height of an 8 year old child as a reference for the length of one meter. From there, students have to...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Intro to Measurement for Primary Students

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
This site from the Math Forum is a great introduction to measurement for primary students. Each measurement activity has four components: interactive, manipulative-based project; technology; paper/pencil practice; literature connection.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Geometry and Measurement

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students learn to explore relationships between units of measure and objects to be measured. They develop an understanding of length, area, and volume.
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Primary Resources

Primary Resources: Measures

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A huge collection of teacher resources to aide in the teaching of all types of metric measurement: length, distance, mass, weight, capacity, and volume. Activities include measuring, estimating, converting, investigating, and finding...
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University of Texas at Austin

Mathematics Teks Toolkit: Measuring Real Stuff

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Nonstandard units of measure are used to compare lengths and weights of real-world objects.
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Are We There Yet?

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
An interactive web lesson teaches students about estimating units of measurement. It also offers practice questions to test students' understanding of the skill.
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: 2nd Grade Measurement Data: Measure It Twice

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
K-5 Math Teaching Resources: 2nd Grade Measurement and Data: Measuring it twice using centimeters and inches.
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Quia

Quia: Customary Measurement

For Students 2nd - 6th Standards
Here are three activities--concentration, matching, and flashcards--to help learn or review the units of customary measurement.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Math: Measurement: Tools of Measurement

For Students 2nd - 7th Standards
A slideshow, a karaoke song to sing along to, and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of measurement and the tools that can be used to measure things, depending on the purpose, e.g., temperature, length, mass, angle, time, etc.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Single Object Length

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video shows how to use a ruler and determine the length of an object in inches. The video is followed by additional problems for students to practice the skills...