Curated OER
Out of This World
Students take a mission to Mars. In this space science lesson, students listen a lecture about space travel to Mars and the planet itself. Students then create timelines of exploration and write poetry about their ideal planet.
Curated OER
Decimals: Collaborative Lesson
Learners explore mathematics by participating in a group activity. In this number value lesson, students identify the uses for decimals and how to best estimate whole numbers based on decimals and fractions. Learners collaborate with...
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Alike and Different
Learners compare and contrast objects and are introduced to a Venn Diagram. In this alike and different lesson, students make observations regarding properties of objects. Learners classify object and build ideas about variables....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Easy Equivalent Measures
Easy Equivalent Measures is an exciting, engaging lesson that will make this unpopular, hard skill EASY for your students. We will use Input/Output charts to demonstrate our knowledge of equivalent measures. This lesson will support the...
Other
K 6 Elementary Education Lesson Plans: Equivalent Measurements
This resource contains a lesson plan that teaches students about equivalent measurements of capacity.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Equivalent Ratios
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Among rational numbers, identify and write different forms of equivalent ratios.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Measures
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: On Track Unit Conversion
Students use three tracks marked on the floor, one in yards, one in feet and one in inches. As they start and stop a robot specific distances on a "runway," they can easily determine the equivalent measurements in other units by looking...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Appropriate Tools for Customary Measurement
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Choose appropriate tools and customary units for given measurement situations.
Other
Math4 Texas: Comparing Measurable Attributes
Students will use their knowledge of measurable attributes (length, weight, capacity) to compare two or more objects using one measurable trait or more than two measurable traits to compare if the objects have more, less, or equal...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Measuring Cups
This task could form part of a classroom activity where learners are encouraged to find as many different ways as possible to make different fractions such as 1/12 and then share their methods. While measuring cups would be helpful to...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Identification of Equivalent Units of Weight
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert and identify equivalent customary units of weight.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Equivalent Ratios
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn what ratios are and how to arrive at equivalent ratios. Identify and write equivalent ratios.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simplifying Measurement Ratios: Lesson 3
This lesson demonstrates how to simplify ratios containing measurements. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Simplifying Measurement Ratios."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simplifying Measurement Ratios: Lesson 4
This lesson demonstrates how to simplify ratios containing measurements. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Simplifying Measurement Ratios."
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Distances or Dimensions Given Scale Measurements
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find actual distances or dimensions using a given scale, ratio, or proportion.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Equivalent Metric Units of Capacity
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert metric units of capacity and identify equivalencies.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Metric Length Comparison
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert metric lengths to the same unit and compare.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Lesson Plan: Tony's Tiger Bites
In this lesson, students are given a marshmallow cereal bar recipe and are challenged to make equivalent fractions while following directions.
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Right Triangle Equal Parts
A geometry proof problem involving a right triangle and finding angles of equal measure.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Identification of Units of Capacity
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert and identify equivalent customary units of capacity.
Lesson Tutor
Lesson Tutor: Metric Measures and Conversions
The rules of the metric system - specifically how to convert from one measurement to another - are reviewed here. A nice table is provided as a tool for students who are just learning this concept to use. Several practice problems are...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Equivalent Metric Units of Mass
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert metric units of mass and identify equivalencies.