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....

It's getting buggy! Students use unifix cubes as their non-standard measurement tool.

The tradebook, Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen, is an excellent tool in teaching measurement. Students will engage in activities involving different types of measurement. In the story, five animal friends decide to take a boat ride....

Work with students to identify and understand the tools used to measure weather and how they're used.

Discover how water displacement can help scientists accurately measure volume.

Learn about the angle measure of an arc with this handy reference tool. Provides a detailed definition, examples, and an interactive activity that enhances further explanation. Includes links to related topics.

Identify the tools used to measure various aspects of climatology like a barometer.

From anemometers to weather satellites this resource identifies several tools used in measuring or forecasting the weather.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide looks at the definitions and postulates of surface area and volume for different solids, including composite solids and similar solids.

A ten question test for assessing measurement concepts of area and perimeter. Assessment is scored online and student scores are compared with other students who have taken the assessment. Great assessment tool.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video [0:34] describes how to add and subtract measurements of length from a given word problem. The video is followed by practice problems covering the topics...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes how to add and subtract measurements of length from a given word problem. The video is followed by practice problems covering the topics in the...

An interactive tool where students can create a model of a greenhouse and use a light sensor to measure the amount of light it receives from a lamp at various times of the day. Temperature is also measured. Data is plotted on graphs,...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate the fundamentals of light including its source, how it is defined for measurements, how we perceive color, and the situations that make an...

To learn how friction affects motion, students explore how different textures provide varying amounts of friction to objects moving across them. They build a tool to measure the amount of friction between a note card and various surfaces...

Find out about wind and jet streams and the tools that measure them.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide reviews how to measure the distance between two points and the Ruler Postulate. It also introduces congruency/congruent segments and midpoint.

Over 100 handouts with answer sheets you can print and use to help build English vocabulary. Numerous topics and themes are covered: everyday words, math terms, seasonal and holiday words, geographical terms, animals, opposites, parts of...

To get a better idea of how meteorologists make weather predictions, students will begin their own weather journals and make rain gauges.