Foundations for many types of structures rest on soil. This project shows how you can investigate the bearing capacity of different types of soil.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Choose the appropriate customary units of weight or capacity given various measurement situations.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert metric units of length, mass, or capacity by multiplying by powers of ten.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This learning module offers four videos and a set of practice questions on how to find the capacity of liquid by filling containers with liquids (English Units).

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert and identify equivalent customary units of capacity.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice estimating capacity using metric units.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video overview about capacity using metric units.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Converting customary units of measurement.

This interactive focuses on measuring objects using coins as units of measurement. They measure tools, trains, mice, and shoes.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert among customary units of measurement by using factors and multiples.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert customary units of measure by dividing when converting from small units to large units.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems on how to compare cups and quarts.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems on comparing quarts and pints.

Students will find capacity of objects and practice telling time to the half-hour while playing learning games.

Learn how to enlarge drawings, figure out how much tile to buy to cover a specific floor, and learn about area and perimeter. These and other lesson plans are provided, including a fun interdisciplinary plan featuring dragons.

A guide to support parents as they work with their students in place value and problem solving with units of measure.

This lesson will introduce students to measuring weight, mass, volume, and capacity using metric and cutomary units. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.

Measure and compare the heat capacity of an unknown liquid with an unknown density.

As an analytical chemist at a company developing new engine coolants your task is to determine the heat capacity of a newly developed product and then to determine if its heat capacity is greater of less than that of ethylene glycol.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video demonstrates how to convert multiple units to the smallest unit of measurement in order to add and write the solution as a compound unit. Practice problems...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Choose appropriate tools and customary units for given measurement situations.

Wikipedia provides detailed information on the topic of temperature. Offers much information on units and measurements of temperature.

In this field investigation, small groups of learners will observe and measure characteristics of the South Crow River near Mayer, Minnesota. Data collection on these characteristics will include but not be limited to: speed of current...

Through eight lessons, students are introduced to many facets of dams, including their basic components, the common types (all designed to resist strong forces), their primary benefits (electricity generation, water supply, flood...