In order to pull small groups during math instruction, the rest of the students need engaging activities that they can complete independently. These centers allow students to practice a variety of math skills including measurement.

Lesson plan which details how to have students determine the distance to an object by sighting it from two different locations and knowing the distance between these locations. As an advanced alternative, trigonometry can be used to...

Bill Murray called it "Baby Stepping" but today we will be student stepping. The students will measure 8 different lines using their own feet!

Fish Eyes is a math story, but it is not focused on length. I use this book to have the students compare the length of the different fish in the story.

Too Tall Tina is a book about a student who is obsessed with being too tall. It shows examples of many measurement comparisons.

Measurement, perimeter, and area skills are exhibited while students participate in these hands-on lessons. Each lesson plan includes objectives, methods, strategies, a description, and assessment techniques.

Measurement, perimeter, and area skills are exhibited while young scholars participate in these hands-on lessons. Each lesson plan includes objectives, methods, strategies, a description, and assessment techniques.

Measurement, perimeter, and area skills are exhibited while students participate in these hands-on lessons. Each lesson plan includes objectives, methods, strategies, a description, and assessment techniques.

Parents and children explore math in the world around them in this collection of math activities. Simple, engaging, and fun, these lessons offer learners the opportunity to discover math even when they're "on the go." An excellent...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch and show the data by making a line plot. This lesson includes an...

Lining up from tallest to shortest is a great way to practice looking at height and exploring the terms shorter and taller.

This lesson plan has a game to help students convert to various linear metric units and learn their abbreviations.

For this lesson, young scholars will learn how to use a ruler to measure in inches and compare objects using the words "longest" and "shortest."

This site includes two first grade math vocabulary lesson plans: one for measurement terms and time and money, and another for geometry terms

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

It is important to go slow to go fast. Students are successful when they have a clear understanding of expectations. At the start of the school year the rules and rituals for the Math Workshop are established through modeling and practice.

Students love to have choice and move around the classroom in this measurement activity that begins with a beloved picture book.

This lesson is a real world task that combines many skills the students have learned throughout the school year.

Kindergarteners need a variety of experiences to ensure they build a strong foundation on a topic. This lesson gives them another opportunity to compare height, this time using themselves as the objects.

This video lesson [2:15] will walk you through using a ruler to measure the distance between endpoints. It is 2 of 10 in the series titled "Measuring a Line Segment." Students can take a short review quiz when finished....

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....

For this lesson, Rolf Myller's book entitled How Big is a Foot? is used as a mentor text. Learners will answer the question, "What does it mean to be big?"The mathematical concepts of area, attributes, and fractions are introduced....

Using an engaging approach, this lesson requires students to record the volume of cylinders as a function of the radius. Students will construct and measure the volume of several cylinders and then begin comparing these shapes.

NZMaths, a New Zealand teacher resource, provides lesson plans for students in algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers, statistics, logic and reasoning.