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Better Lesson: Math Centers Measurement and Review
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.
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Better Lesson: Measuring With Student Steps
Bill Murray called it "Baby Stepping" but today we will be student stepping. The students will measure 8 different lines using their own feet!
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Better Lesson: Measurement Comparing Length Day 1
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.
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Better Lesson: Measurement Comparing Height Day 2
Too Tall Tina is a book about a student who is obsessed with being too tall. It shows examples of many measurement comparisons.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Measurement, Perimeter, and Area Activities
Measurement, perimeter, and area skills are exhibited while learners participate in these hands-on lessons. Each lesson plan includes objectives, methods, strategies, a description, and assessment techniques.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Measurement, Perimeter, and Area Activities
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.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Measurement, Perimeter, and Area Activities
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.
US Department of Education
Helping Your Child Learn Math: Math on the Go
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...
CPALMS
Cpalms: Measure Up! Measuring to Make a Line Plot
[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...
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Better Lesson: Measurement Comparing Height Day 1
Lining up from tallest to shortest is a great way to practice looking at height and exploring the terms shorter and taller.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Measurement: Metric Conversions
This lesson plan has a game to help students convert to various linear metric units and learn their abbreviations.
Other
Nearpod: Measurement: Length in Inches
In this instructional activity, students will learn how to use a ruler to measure in inches and compare objects using the words "longest" and "shortest."
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Lesson Plans Math Vocabulary 1st Grade
This site includes two first grade math vocabulary lesson plans: one for measurement terms and time and money, and another for geometry terms
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Better Lesson: Using Different Units to Measure Day 1
Today students will focus on the idea that measuring an object using different length units will result in different measurements.
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Better Lesson: What Is Math Anyway
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.
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Better Lesson: Keeper or Not a Keeper?
First graders measure fish to determine if the fish is a keeper or not a keeper. In doing so, they also tackle rigorous measurement questions!
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Better Lesson: How Many Cubes?
Students love to have choice and move around the classroom in this measurement lesson that begins with a beloved picture book.
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Better Lesson: Order Length
The long and the short of it... For this introductory lesson to ordering lengths, 1st graders will be able to compare objects by length using the vocabulary longest and shortest.
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Better Lesson: How Much Paint Do We Need?
This lesson plan is a real world task that combines many skills the students have learned throughout the school year.
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Better Lesson: Line Up, Shorty
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Measuring a Line Segment: Lesson 2
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....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Making Measuring Meaningful!
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....
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Time, Money, and Temperature Lesson Plans
Money, time, and temperature are developed through several lessons. These topics of measurement are explained with suggested lessons, evaluations, instructional methods, and resources.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: What Is a Measure?
In this lesson, Rolf Myller's book entitled How Big is a Foot? is used as a mentor text. Young scholars will answer the question, "What does it mean to be big?"The mathematical concepts of area, attributes, and fractions are introduced....