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Inching Worms

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders have a blast trying to measure live, wiggly, stretching worms to the nearest inch. Groups record their data onto a class graph and then compare characteristics. They share their findings with the rest of the class. Fun lesson!
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Is It There?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students participate in a lesson designed to illustrate these concepts using simple materials. They use Science process skills to observe, measure, predict, make inferences, and communicate while completing the activity. Proper safety...
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Understanding Distance in Space

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discover the vocabulary used for distances in space and review measurement units and instruments before creating a scale model of the planets. They determine how to calculate the relative distances between the planets using a...
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Boxing On

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students participate in five center activities in which they construct three dimensional objects using cubic centimeter manipulatives such as sugar cubes and toothpaste boxes. They determine the volume of the objects. They build a model...
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Sizing Up Spout

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students estimate heights and lengths of objects. In this measurement instructional activity, students estimate the length and height of various objects using non-traditional tools of measurement. This instructional activity also...
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How Much Cereal

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate volume through the use of measuring cups. They complete a variety of measuring tasks using kitchen measuring cups. Students accurately measure the volume and compare the results.
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Rainbow Jelly

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students work with teaspoons, tablespoons and fractions of a cup to make their own rainbow jelly, converting between units of volume as required. They recognize the need for a standard unit of volume and measure volume using teaspoons...
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Effective Use of Living Space

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore the concept of scale. In this scale lesson, students create a scale model of a room. Students calculate the area of a room. Students determine what percentage of the room is occupied by furniture.
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Design an Apartment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are given the task of designing an apartment. In groups, they practice estimating the area and perimeter of different shapes. After designing their space, they apply the same formulas to solving real-world story problems.
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Fluid Friction

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students, using wood blocks and model boats, investigate how the shape of an object affects friction it encounters as it is drawn through a towing tank.
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Perimeter

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Students calculate the perimeter of a random shape on a grid.
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Measurement, Scale and the Corn Dolly

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars read and discuss the story The Corn Dolly by Terry Jones. The teacher shows the class a corn dolly and they need to design and construct furniture that is appropriately scaled for that specific dolly.
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Battery Operated Model Car Experiments

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students time battery operated cars over a set track and determine the velocity of each type of car. They use the cars as manipulatives to demonstrate word problems involving velocity.
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Standard One: Lab Design and Appendix A Lab Skills

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this lab design and lab skills worksheet, students answer questions about experimental design including finding variables, determining controls, and graphing data. They answer questions about microscopy and label the parts of a...
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Investigating Segments in a Quadrilateral

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Investigate the properties of the shape formed by connecting the midpoints of adjacent sides of a quadrilateral. In this properties of the shape formed by connecting the midpoints of adjacent sides of a quadrilateral lesson, students use...
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Lesson Plan: Using Maps and Scales to Get to the Basketball Hall of Fame

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students view a quicktime video of basketball players going from Atlanta to Springfield, Mass. In this scaling lesson, students use a map to calculate the distance of the trip and the length of travel time. Students apply ratio and...
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The Robot Ranger

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students participate in an experiment to understand how robotic systems can estimate distances.  In this robotic ranger lesson, students measure the the time it takes for and object to move back and forth.  Students will use a...
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The Shadow Knows - Measuring A Telephone Pole

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders attempt to determine the height of a telephone pole or tree without climbing to the top.
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Measuring Angles

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders describe an amount of turn from a particular position to another using the 'circular' benchmarks of 0, ++, ++, ++, and full turn. Estimation language such as 'just about', 'between', 'not quite', 'just over', and similar...
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High School Mathematics Problems from Alaska: Azimuth and Arc Length

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students track the Azimuth sunrise and sunset over time by creating a chart.
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Measuring with Mathematics

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders discover how the change in the dimensions of a shape cause a change in the overall area of the shape, but the perimeter stay the same. They, in groups, go out to the playground and construct large areas using stakes and rope.
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Data Collection and Record Keeping. Measuring Larval Growth and Development

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students keep data records of the growth of Monarch larvae. The observations are made with the change of each stage of development. The observations are to stimulate the answering of questions about biological development.
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Exploring Length and Perimeter

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders determine the perimeter of geometric shapes with a grid at technology based resource. While looking at figures on an overhead, they determine how much border they would need to go around a figure. They also complete...
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MEASURING THE GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT, G

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students study gravitational force an.  In this gravitational force lesson students observe a demonstration. 

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