Students investigate the characteristics of a community. They investigate the characteristics of the Omaha community through internet research and discussion. Students create books about their community.

Students use the internet to find reasons the rainforest is endangered and ways that affects the rest of the world. They read for information, perform experiments, locate rainforests on maps, and write about this ecosystem.

Third graders decide what they want to explore lightning, how to go about finding the answers, and deciding what skills they need to further study some of their questions.

Students discover how cell phone service works while participating in a role play activity. They identify its advantages and disadvantages based on service. They examine how engineers use this information to develop better...

Read about how Max and Ruthie measured some fun objects in their gym. Use this method to measure things in your classroom. A helpful teacher's guide and extra challenges will make this a fun lesson plan on measuring with nonstandard units.

AAA Math's interactive tutorials and lessons assist students grades K-8 improve their understanding of a wide range of arithmetic topics. Students are provided with immediate feedback as they complete the "Learn," "Practice," and "Play"...

Third graders build measuring skills using quarter inch measurements.

This is a lesson using data from "Census at School" to predict your adult height using your current height.

Connect new measurement knowledge and skills to the students' immediate environment.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch and show the data by making a line plot. This lesson includes an...

This lesson plan has a game to help learners convert to various linear metric units and learn their abbreviations.

This lesson plan is designed to guide students in practicing their basic arithmetic skills by learning about clock arithmetic and cryptography. Linked resources include helpful applets.

This geometry lesson and video explain angle measure, how to measure angles with a protractor, and has varied exercises for the students.

Learners collect data to determine what happens to the sizes of bubbles when glycerin is added to dish detergent. They will practice their measuring skills and have fun at the same time.

Third graders create line plots and analyze data using measurement data with quarter unit fractions.

Third graders apply measurement, graphing, and data skills to the real world context of physical education with standing jumps.

Restaurant manager Tad Peelen explains how he uses math in his work in this video from KAET. In the accompanying classroom activity, students complete an activity involving one aspect of math that Mr. Peleen mentions: determining...

This lesson focuses on the addition measurement of perimeter using real world examples.

Using a broken ruler requires students to turn to addition and subtraction skills in order to determine measurements.

Understand the measurement process and the need for standard units.

It is important to go slow to go fast. Students are successful when they have a clear understanding of expectations. At the start of the school year the rules and rituals for the Math Workshop are established through modeling and practice.

This lesson plan is a real world task that combines many skills the students have learned throughout the school year.

Counting by 10's is easy for students of this age. Knowing that base 10 can be used to help multiply and divide in the higher numbers by decomposing is critical. This lesson sets the base for future work.

Interactive lessons featuring 2-D and 3-D shapes, angles, time, and symmetry. For each section, play a learning game, read a lesson that includes comprehensive vocabulary, and take a quiz to find out what you've learned.