ClassFlow
Class Flow: Weight
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart can be used in Everyday Math for third grade. It involves metric and U.S. Customary weights and measuring different objects.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Weight vs. Capacity
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Astronaut Training Chamber
[Free Registration/Login Required] Uncover the relationship between weight and mass, on Earth and beyond.
Utah Education Network
Uen: It's a Weighty Matter
Third graders will understand weight, mass, and gravity.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Newton's First Law Review
Review the key concepts, equations, and skills for Newton's first law of motion, including the difference between mass and weight.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Gravity
Peruse this resource to learn about gravity, its importance, the Universal Law of Gravitation, the difference between mass and weight, and more fun facts.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Floating and Sinking: Hot Air Balloons
Why do hot air balloons float? This resource from the NOVA Web site offers a series of interactive activities that illustrates the physics of hot air balloons.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Introduction to Matter
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a basic introduction to the properties of matter, mass, and weight. It discusses the physical properties of objects.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Matter: Properties of Matter
A video and a short quiz on the properties of matter, covering mass, density, weight, and volume.
Curated OER
Hyper Physics: Mass, Weight, and Weightlessness
Site from HyperPhysics dealing with the topic of mass and weight. In addition the site deals with weightlessness. The numerous links to other pages help the student see how ideas are interrelated.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Metric Mass (Weight)
Grams, kilograms and tonnes are explained, and real life examples are given for each.
The Math League
The Math League: Mass
This site gives conversions from metric to metric as well as providing abbreviations for each.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Hanging Around
Students learn about weight by building a spring scale and observing how it responds to objects with different masses.
Curated OER
Kids Health: What Being Overweight Means?
This resource provides information about obesity, and the importance of weight control.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: The Intimate Machine: Weighing In
Explore the "intelligent floor," which contains sensors that can track movements, and emulate the weighing technique associated with this technology. Explore the relationship between volume and mass and the difference between accuracy...
Visual Fractions
Visual Fractions: Platform Scale Addition
Weigh five little creatures on a metric scale, and add to find their total mass to the hundredths place as each one joins the group. A timer calculates your speed of computation.
Chateau Meddybemps
Chateau Meddybemps: Teeter Totter Experiments
Practice comparing mass by trying the Teeter Totter Experiment. Watch the teeter totter move up and down as you compare Marcus to each animal.
National Institutes of Health
Nih: Body Mass Index
Enter your height and weight and determine your body mass index. Compare your index to the BMI categories and learn if you are underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese.
Scholastic
Scholastic News: Week of 4 1 13: Is the Kilogram Gaining Weight?
A metal cylinder used for setting the international standard of the kilogram has been slowly gaining mass over the years. This article describes the impact of that mass gain and what scientists are doing to shrink it back to size.
Curated OER
Hyper Physics: Mass, Weight, and Weightlessness
Site from HyperPhysics dealing with the topic of mass and weight. In addition the site deals with weightlessness. The numerous links to other pages help the student see how ideas are interrelated.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Rocket Sled
Explore the relationship between thrust, drag, friction, weight, and acceleration in this interactive simulation and see if you can make the sled stop on a particular rock
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mineral Density: Teaching Accuracy, Slope, and Percent Error
Students explore the meaning of density and use their math skills to graph mass/volume data, write an equation for a line, and interpret the slope of the line. Students also find the density of two unknown mineral samples and use those...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mechanics Mania
Through ten lessons and numerous activities, students explore the natural universal rules engineers and physicists use to understand how things move and stay still. Together, these rules are called "mechanics." The study of mechanics is...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: The Center of Mass
This site from the Illinois Institute of Technology provides a lab activity in which students determine the location of the center of mass of an irregularly shaped object. Observations are related to the balancing point of the object....
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