Measurement Teaching Theme provides an excellent collection of free sample worksheets, teacher resources, lesson plans and interactive media for the elementary grades.

Meet George who lives on an Australian sheep farm. Can you help him with some chores?

Animal Fun is here! In this week's adventure, Animal Measurement, children will explore measurement with the help of hermit crabs (investigating size correspondence by matching a hermit crab to its appropriate shell), beavers (visual...

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...

This lesson is a hands-on, cross-curricular lesson for exploring non-standard measurement. It utilizes children's literature, manipulatives, opportunities for writing, and small group collaborative learning. Students will meaningfully...

In this exercise, students practice comparing lengths. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.

In this exercise, students practice ordering objects by length. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.

On this interactive site students learn to use ordinary language to describe position and length.

Students will learn how to order items by length. They will use plastic toy animals for hands-on learning and then students will locate pictures of animals of various lengths and sizes in their natural habitat on the Internet. They will...

This activity gives the students the opportunity to see what an inch really looks like. It also provides them with a chance to be creative using various inch materials and to create a visual for what an inch is. It is a great lesson to...

Metric units for volume, mass, length and temperature are explained to a cute little alien called Maggie. There are lots of real life examples for comparison that younger children will understand.

This hands-on, inquiry based lesson is an extension of the AMSTI Science Module, Solids and Liquids. Students use nonstandard units to measure beans in a soup mix. Students predict how many beans will be in a scoop. Students group beans...

Students will compare the length and weight of several pairs of objects to learn that weight and length are separate measurable attributes, and not always related.

Site provides various rulers that you can print out and have children use in the classroom. Great resource for math teachers!

Site provides various rulers that you can print out and have children use in the classroom. Great resource for math teachers!

The learning activity reviews conversion from meters to kilometers. Students answer ten questions and can check their answers when finished.