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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Making Measuring Meaningful!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This activity helps students recognize that measuring tools can come in many different shapes and sizes. The student's will develop creative-thinking, math, and social skills as they use nontraditional and traditional measuring tools....
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: What Is a Measure?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, Rolf Myller's book entitled How Big is a Foot? is used as a mentor text. Students will answer the question, "What does it mean to be big?"The mathematical concepts of area, attributes, and fractions are introduced....
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Hop on Pop and Non Standard Measurement

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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. Learners will meaningfully...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Why Do We Need Measurement Tools?

For Teachers K - 1st
This activity will explore the need for standard measurement tools. It will engage the learners and promote critical thinking and reasoning. This is a lead in activity to conversions. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama...
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Better Lesson: Measurement Comparing Height Day 1

For Teachers K Standards
Lining up from tallest to shortest is a great way to practice looking at height and exploring the terms shorter and taller.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Longer and Heavier? Shorter and Heavier?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Is an Inch?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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...
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Better Lesson: Babies & Big Boy Feet

For Teachers K Standards
Kindergarteners need a basic understanding of measurement that leads them to know that the smaller the unit the more it takes to measure the same object using less larger units.
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Better Lesson: Wow! That's Heavy!

For Teachers K Standards
Kindergarteners grasp the basic concepts of measurement quickly and this lesson provides a fun experience learning about weight.
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Better Lesson: How Many Cubes?

For Teachers K Standards
Students love to have choice and move around the classroom in this measurement lesson plan that begins with a beloved picture book.

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