Learners 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.

Learners 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...

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.

This New Zealand Measurement lesson plan offers an excellent opportunity for young pupils to explore, in a hands-on context, the concept of volume using non-standard units. There is also a Home Link available to send home for parents to...

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 on measuring with nonstandard units.

Watch a lesson show you step by step how to tell time then sing along with a karaoke song.

This is a great measurement lesson plan with a literature connection, "Inch by Inch" by Leo Lioni. It uses a variety of activities where learners use the inch unit.

This is a short, fun lesson plan with a literature connection, "Miss Nelson is Missing". It uses candy bars as non-standard units for measuring objects in the classroom.

This is a short, fun lesson plan with a literature connection, "Miss Nelson is Missing". It uses candy bars as non-standard units for measuring objects in the classroom.

Third graders build measuring skills using quarter inch measurements.

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

[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...

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...

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.

Third graders use area models to find the total area of a store, home, or other real world space.

I can create things that have their own unique perimeter.

Perimeter is all around us!