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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Algebra- Cell Phone Plans

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners analyze graphs to compare cell phone plans. In this algebra lesson, students work together to analyze phone plans and report the best phone plan. Learners develop tables and graphs.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Coastal Threat: A Story in Unit Conversions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students convert measurements from one unit to another. In this math lesson, students study the environmental consequences of oil spills. They replicate an oil spill event by modeling and scaling.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Creating a Basal Area Measuring Tape

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use formulas to design and create a table.  In this calculations lesson plan students create basal measuring tapes that will be used to measure woodlot stocking levels. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Maps/ Scales and Conversions

For Students 6th - 8th
In this math activity, students look for the actual values for the measurements of distance. The answers are found on page three.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Converting Metric Measurements

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders convert metric measurements.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Weight Conversion Homework

For Students 5th - 8th
In this math worksheet, students practice converting the two problems into the appropriate measurements. The measures are written in the graphic organizer.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Choice of Unit

For Students 8th Standards
Explore using units with scientific notation to communicate numbers effectively. Individuals choose appropriate units to express numbers in a real-life situation. For this 13th lesson of 15, participants convert numbers in scientific...
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Assessment
Achieve

Yogurt Packaging

For Students 7th - 10th Standards
Food companies understand how to use math to their advantage. Learners explore the math related to the packaging and serving size of yogurt. They then use unit analysis and percent values to make decisions on the product development.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Converting Celsius to Fahrenheit (B)

For Students 6th - 7th
In this Celsius and Fahrenheit worksheet, students solve 36 problems in which Celsius degrees are converted to Fahrenheit. There is no conversion table, instruction or example.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Measuring the Wavelengths of Visible Light

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students demonstrate use of an Emission tube power supply, a diffraction grating, and a scientific calculator to determine the different wavelengths of light.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Your Melon for Math

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students apply fraction multiplication and division to recipe conversion.
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Activity
101 Questions

Jam Session

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Don't let the learning in your classroom get jammed up! Intrigue your scholars with an open-ended scenario to explore. A video presentation shows a challenging stretch of road that is susceptible to traffic jams. The task is to determine...
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Worksheet
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Convert Customary Units of Length

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Sports fans will really enjoy this unit conversion assignment. A table of standard measurements for football-related equipment is presented as the data for solving six word problems. For all of the problems, players will need to convert...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mathematical Techniques - Basic Graphing

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners are introduced to significant figures and how to add, subtract, multiply and divide them. In a group, they practice plotting data points from a table to a graph and labeling all axes. They calculate the slope and y-intercept and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Leveled Problem Solving Converting Between Systems

For Students 5th - 6th
In this measurement conversions worksheet, students solve the problems by converting the measurements in each problem to the given systems.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Convert This!

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students use conversion factors to solve problems. In this algebra lesson, students convert between Metric and English Units. They measure different objects and using both systems in their units.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Light Beam

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students measure and convert between units. For this geometry lesson, students investigate through measurements of distances. They relate the properties of circle to solving problems with radius, diameter and area.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

How Much?

For Students 4th - 5th
In this math worksheet, students practice converting the values of the common measurements into the new equivalents. Page 1 has the conversion tables.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Measuring Distance in Cocowalk

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders select 6 stores and 1 restaurant at Cocowalk and measure the distance of traveling from store to store. They measure the distance from Store 1 to Store 2 and label that distance A.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Measuring

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students convert basic measurement in English and Metric Units.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Metric System

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students, via the newspaper, practice standard and metric measurement.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Charting Weight

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders record the weight of themselves and 3 family over a week, and then use that data to compile 2 bar graphs and 4 line graphs and answer a series of questions.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Interpreting the Graph of a Function

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Groups sort through NASA data provided in a graphic to create a graph using uniform units and intervals. Individuals then make connections to the increasing, decreasing, and constant intervals of the graph and relate these connections...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rule of Quarters

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students memorize four key decimal values for quick and accurate conversion. They convert decimal foot measurements to inches and fractions using math tables, computation or memorization. They memorize decimal foot conversions.