Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Weight vs. Capacity
This instructional activity will introduce students to measuring weight, mass, volume, and capacity using metric and cutomary units. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Who Sank the Boat?
This lesson teaches the concept of measurement using grams and ounces through a student-created experiment. The students will get to test their own scientific predictions by constructing a boat and trying to sink it. This lesson provides...
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.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Fast Food and Obesity
Information on obesity data and wieight.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Dinosaur Train Chow Time
Feed the hungry dinosaurs but make sure they are getting the right amount! Click and drag food to the scale until it's balanced.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Weighted Subdivision
Use this 7-problem quiz/practice to help understand what happens in subdivision with different weights
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Subdivision Weights
This 7-problem quiz/practice helps students understand how different weights effect the subdivision shape.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Bonus: Equations for Points in Subdivision
Points on the control arm: Let's start with a shape with four control points, AAAA, BBBB, CCCC and DDDD, then use subdivision with weights (1,1)(1, 1)(1,1)left parenthesis, 1, comma, 1, right parenthesis.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Subdivision Weights (Practice)
This is 4-problem quiz/practice. What of the following weights could be used for the subdivision algorithm to give us a fractal?
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Customarily Speaking and Measuring
Students will be using a hands-on approach to learning about length, capacity, and weight. This lesson contains a detailed plan, slides containing notes and problems, and a video tutorial.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Pan Balance Shapes
Use this tool to build up to algebraic thinking by exploring how to balance shapes of unknown weight.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Newton's First Law Review
Review the key concepts, equations, and skills for Newton's first law of motion, including the difference between mass and weight.
Cuemath
Cuemath: Measuring Weight
A comprehensive guide for learning all about measuring weight with definitions, units of measurement, and conversion.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Rocket Sled
Explore the relationship between thrust, drag, friction, weight, and acceleration in this interactive simulation and see if you can make the sled stop on a particular rock
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.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Build the Best Paper Bridge
Find out what makes a bridge strong in this fun activity as you build simple bridges with paper and test to see how much weight they can hold.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Pizza Restaurant: Data & Length
Students practice ordering objects by height, length and weight on this interactive website by helping an owner of an Italian restaurant.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Orange Trees, Olive Trees: Number Patterns and Fractions
This interactive site allows students to practice multiple skills including number patterns, fractions, weight, and ordering numbers.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Market Place: Mass
On this interactive site students learn to use various units of mass to solve problems and put objects in order by their mass.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Weight?
This article on weight will help you prepare for the AP Physics test. Included are example problems to help you practice.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: What Is Type 2 Diabetes?
A brief article that explains how type 2 diabetes develops in the body.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Stevens Institute of Technology: Buoyancy Simulation
By choosing the mass, size, and time, students can experiment with whether the block floats or sinks in this simulation. Students have the option to display the forces and add a second block to the tank. Density is also shown to allow...
University of Oregon
The University of Oregon: Specific Gravity
Specific gravity and density are defined and explained.
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PBS
Pbs Kids: Throw Your Weight Around [Pdf]
Three activities that test how you keep your balance. It's harder than you think!