Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Customarily Speaking and Measuring
Young scholars will be using a hands-on approach to learning about length, capacity, and weight. This instructional activity contains a detailed plan, slides containing notes and problems, and a video tutorial.
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Water Properties and Measurements
Learn about the various attributes of water and how they affect life on Earth.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Comparison of Length, Weight, Capacity, and Numbers to 10
A guide to support parents as they work with their students in comparison of length, weight, capacity, and numbers to 10.
PBS
Pbs: Understanding Concepts of Volume and Measurement: Bianca's Babysitting Blues
In this video from Cyberchase, Bianca is babysitting infant twins. As she tries to give each twin the same amount of liquid baby formula, she discovers that all the baby bottles are different shapes. Learn how she finds two that hold the...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Visually Comparing Capacity and Volume
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice visually comparing capacity using metric units.
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Measuring How Much Activity Plan
Measuring fun is here! In this week's adventure, children will explore volume, capacity, and weight and learn new math vocabulary words as they practice measurement with real and virtual measuring tools. Each section of this weeklong...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Thermal Physics: Measuring the Quantity of Heat
Through interactive exercises and illustrated example problems, students learn about specific heat capacity and measuring the quantity of heat.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Rice Field: Mass, Capacity and Position
Help Tutu in the Rice Field and learn all about mass and capacity.
BBC
Bbc: Revise Wise: Measures
This teaching site has interactive exercises using different types of measurement. You will measure length, capacity, area, perimeter, time, weight, temperature, and speed.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Visually Comparing Capacity and Volume Three Containers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes how to visually compare the capacity of three different containers.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Mass and Capacity Metric System
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of mass and capacity in the Metric System. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click...
University of Houston
University of Houston: Measurement Teacher Activities: Capacity Lessons
This lesson plan offers opportunities for students to gain experience working with cups, pints, quarts and gallons. It also provides many resources to use with students.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Equivalent Metric Units of Capacity
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert metric units of capacity and identify equivalencies.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Capacity or Weight....it's Full of Beans!
Sixth graders will be using a hands-on approach to learning about length, capacity and weight.
Cuemath
Cuemath: Measuring Capacity
A comprehensive guide for learning all about capacity with definitions, units of measurements, conversion, solved examples, and practice questions.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Put Some Energy Into It! Use a Calorimeter to Measure
In this science fair project, use a calorimeter with an attached heating element to measure how water responds to added thermal energy.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Appropriate Metric Units of Mass or Capacity
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Choose the appropriate metric units of mass or capacity given various measurement situations.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Challenging Problems: Capacity in Liters Word Problems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems involving metric capacity word problems.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Multi Step Metric Capacity Word Problems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems on solving multi-step metric capacity word problems.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Comparing Compound Unit Capacities (Grade 3)
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This learning module features three videos and a set of practice questions in which students recognize greater than/less than values and identify by how much a...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Conversion of Customary Units by Multiplying
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert customary units of measure by multiplying when converting from large units to small units.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Selecting Capacity by Comparison
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems involving units of capacity.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Measures
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...