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Flight Dreams - Folding into Flight

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th Standards
Combine measurement, following directions, physics, and art with one fun activity. Learners read a set of instruction to create three different kinds of paper airplanes. They measure, fold, and fly the planes, and record data and answer...
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Explore Customary Units of Length - Practice 12.1

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Give pupils a ruler and this worksheet so that they can practice measuring down to the quarter inch! Drawings of six various objects are depicted for them to apply their measurement skills to. The assignment concludes with one...
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What Time Is It? Part 2

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Tell time to the half hour with these analog clocks! The first six problems invite first graders to write the correct times below, while the second set of problems provide the time and empty clock faces. A great way to review your time...
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Pan Balance: Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students explore the concept of equivalence as it relates to comparing concrete objects to determine greater or lesser attributes such as length and weight. In this pan balance-shapes lesson, students make estimations while verifying...
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Measure the Length – Complex

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this measurement activity, students measure the length of objects on this activity, with the units given underneath the objects. Students complete 14 problems.
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Measure the Length of the Object – Basic

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this measurement activity, students measure cars, trucks, feathers, and more with the units given. Students complete 9 problems.
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Measure This!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students estimate the measurement in centimeters for common classroom objects. They check their estimations, discuss the differences and write a paragraph summarizing the activity.
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Are You Sleeping?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Here is a measurement lesson focusing on length. Learners use their feet as the unit of measurement for furniture in the classroom and at home, and sketch the pieces of furniture they measured.
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The Clever Monkey Rides Again

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Use a West African folktale to practice several different skills in your first grade classroom. Learners read The Clever Monkey Rides Again and focus on rhyming words, reading comprehension, measurement, art, movement, and word...
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The Pet Snake

For Students 1st Standards
Assess how long the class pet snake grew and how long it was when it started growing with a short worksheet. Learners use addition and subtraction strategies with measurements to answer three questions.
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Metric Me!

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Pupils experience measuring things without the system of inches or millimeters. They utilize a ruler to measure or a body part to measure at least three body parts such as your ear height, finger length of foot width. Students represent...
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Peg a Path- Visual Thinking and Length Worksheet

For Students 1st
In this visual thinking and length worksheet, 1st graders examine a pegboard path. They draw two different paths that are equal in length to 4 examples.
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Trees

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the parts of a tree, measure its circumference and the length and width of its longest branch. The data is compiled and placed into a bar graph.
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Nonstandard Units

For Students 1st - 2nd
Here is a very good measurement worksheet. Four problems are solved in which objects at home are measured using the specified nonstandard measurement units such as toothpicks, footsteps and teaspoons.
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Time - How Long Will it Take?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Youngsters think about the length of different periods of time. They label the seven most common units of time measurement, then answer eight questions that have to deal with those same units of time. A good worksheet!
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Length and Weight

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this measurements worksheet, students study the illustrated pictures in the 8 sets of problems. Students compare the pictures by length or weight.
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Order Length

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this length activity, students number the objects in order from shortest to longest. Students use the longest side of each to determine the order of length for the 9 problems.
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Order Length

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this length worksheet, students study the two objects in the 9 sets of problems and circle the object with the longest side. Students enhance their understanding of length.
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Measure the Lines

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this measuring worksheet, students cut out a measuring bar and use it to measure and color designated matching numbers.
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Measuring Lines in Cm 1

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this measurements learning exercise, students measure the various lines and then write the lengths in centimeters on the provided lines.
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Measuring Lesson Plans and Metric System Conversions

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students may review measurement, and metric system conversions by measuring one another and the world around them.
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Estimation and Measurement

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use unconventional units of measure to estimate and measure.
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How Big is a Foot?

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice nonstandard measurement and estimating and measuring lengths of objects.
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Measurement

For Teachers 1st
First graders participate in various activities dealing with measurement, length, volume, and temperature. They identify the need for standard units of measure, sort and classify objects, measure distances, and use a thermometer.