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Social Studies: Community Posters As Art

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine posters as art and create their own examples featuring locations or events from their community. They display their works in their schools and discuss their cities and school environments in a live chat setting with...
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The Big O

For Teachers K - 3rd
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.
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Curated OER

Our Daily Five

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the food pyramid through a class discussion, hands-on experience with food items, and a floor game that helps them to identify the food group involved. Lesson extensions include the use of play money, art, and dance.
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Away You Go

For Teachers K - 5th
Students build Lego cars which have two different types of tire surfaces. They roll them down ramps that have both rough and smooth surfaces to determine how friction affects the car as it rolls.
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Curated OER

Daily Survival Requirements of Water

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students will use inquiry science to complete an investigation. They create hypotheses predicting the changes water undergoes in becoming ice and determine how much ice needs to be melted to create one 8 oz. glass of water.
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Mural Mania

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create a mural that displays symbols for their home state. They complete worksheets and read a book about their state. They collect images of the state flower, tree and bird for the mural. There are 5 other lesson plans included...
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Curated OER

A Worm World

For Teachers K - 1st
Students maintain a compost bin and build a worm observatory. They design experiments relating to worms and record observations in a worm journal.
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Curated OER

Rockets on a Shoestring Budgut

For Teachers K - 5th
Students work together to create rockets on a budget. They discover the limitations that real engineers face when designing and testing their products. They discuss their findings to complete the lesson plan.
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Drink It Up!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate how the human body needs water by recording their water consumption for a day. They sing a song about drinking water, make and drink Kool-Aid and eat apple slices, and conduct an experiment to determine how much...
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Measurement Teaching Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Measurement Teaching Theme provides an excellent collection of free sample worksheets, teacher resources, lesson plans and interactive media for the elementary grades.
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Measuring How Much Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Measuring fun is here! In this week's adventure, children will explore volume, capacity, and weight and learn new math vocabulary words as they practice measurement with real and virtual measuring tools. Each section of this weeklong...
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Animal Measurement Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
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...
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US Department of Education

Helping Your Child Learn Math: Math in the Home

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An excellent compilation of activities that engage parents and children in math explorations at home. Detailed lessons covering a wide range of math topics such as fractions, measurements, money, data collection, and math in newspapers....
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Math Drills

Math Drills: Halloween Math Worksheets

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Download these free worksheets to sharpen your math skills. These Halloween math worksheets focus on topics such as multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, number patterns, counting, ordering, probability, and measurement.
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US Department of Education

Helping Your Child Learn Math: Math at the Grocery Store

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Make grocery shopping a mathematical experience. Parents and children explore a variety of math concepts through this collection of engaging math activities. Lesson are presented in varying levels of difficulty, offer "Parent Pointers"...
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PBS

Pbs: Count on It!: Episode 202 Math Is Everywhere, Part Ll

For Students K - 1st Standards
Blossom and Snappy discover a new window that Robbie put in the garage and decide to measure it. They discover the difference of standard measurement and non-standard measurement while making candies and during their visits to McDonald's...
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Link to Learning: Measurement

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Link to Learning is a site popular among Ontario teachers. This collection of sites addresses some of the Measurement expectations in the Ontario Math curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade 8.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Math Centers Measurement and Review

For Teachers K Standards
In order to pull small groups during math instruction, the rest of the students need engaging activities that they can complete independently. These centers allow students to practice a variety of math skills including measurement.
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Primary Resources

Primary Resources: Measures

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Measuring Butterflies and Caterpillars

For Teachers K Standards
Butterflies and caterpillars are the focus of this measurement lesson, integrating our math and science curriculum.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Can You Do It Too?

For Students K - 1st Standards
Can you throw a beanbag as far as the Olympic hammer or discus throwers? This activity introduces children to informal measures to compare distances, and is designed to be accessible to primary pupils at Key Stage 1.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Olympic Starters

For Students K - 1st
How do you compare to these results from Olympic Games in the past if you try similar running and jumping activities? This activity uses the history of the Olympic Games to introduce ideas about measuring time and distances in standard...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Measurement Comparing Length Day 1

For Teachers K Standards
Fish Eyes is a math story, but it is not focused on length. I use this book to have the students compare the length of the different fish in the story.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Measurement Comparing Height Day 2

For Teachers K Standards
Too Tall Tina is a book about a student who is obsessed with being too tall. It shows examples of many measurement comparisons.

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