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Nz Maths Measurement Lesson Plan: Spoonfuls, Cupfuls, and Handfuls
This New Zealand Measurement lesson plan offers an excellent opportunity for young students to explore, in a hands-on context, the concept of volume using non-standard units. There is also a Home Link available to send home for parents...
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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: 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: 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.
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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."
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...
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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.
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.
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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....
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: The Cylinder Problem: High School Lesson
Using an engaging approach, this instructional activity 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...
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Nz Maths Problem Solving Lesson Plans: Level 1
NZMaths, a New Zealand teacher resource, provides lesson plans for students in algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers, statistics, logic and reasoning.
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Nz Maths: Problem Solving Lesson Plans: Level 3 Problems
This New Zealand Problems website is an excellent resource for lesson plans in problem-solving. They are organized into the following categories: algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers, statistics, and logic and reasoning.
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Nz Maths Problem Solving Lesson Plans: Level 4
This New Zealand Problem Solving website is an outstanding resource for lesson plans. They are organized into the following categories: algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers, statistics, and logic and reasoning.
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Scholastic Lesson Plan: New Way to Measure Area
This article describes a new approach to teaching children more than just memorizing a formula to find area and hope they don't confuse it with perimeter. This approach involves a project with real life situations....