Students rotate from station to station completing activities involving measurement weight, length, and volume using metric measurement.

Today students will focus on the idea that measuring an object using different length units will result in different measurements.

Move over Van Halen because today we are all going to "Jump." So go ahead and jump as students solve an assessment piece and story problems involving jump lengths. If you are under 30, please Google Van Halen before proceeding.

Explore the work of forensic scientists by inferring an individual's height from the length of certain long bones. Create bone/height relation charts and measure length using metric units. This activity was created to be used with the...

In this lesson plan site, young scholars will compare SI unit (metric) measurements of common household items and their English equivalents.

Were off to get the measure, the wonderful measure of side! The students will identify the longest side of an object and measure its length with a variety of non standard units.

What good fishing trip isn't without a good story or two? Today the students will solve comparison story problems involving different lengths of fish.

In past times, ocean navigators tossed a piece of wood over the side of their ships and noted how long until the ship passed the wood. They used this time measurement and the length of the ship to calculate their speed and estimate how...