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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Customarily Speaking and Measuring

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students will be using a hands-on approach to learning about length, capacity, and weight. This lesson plan contains a detailed plan, slides containing notes and problems, and a video tutorial.
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PBS

Pbs Mathline: It Takes Ten Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Students rotate from station to station completing activities involving measurement weight, length, and volume using metric measurement.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Comparing Lengths

For Teachers 3rd
At the completion of this lesson, 3rd graders will understand how to compare the lengths of various objects. This lesson plan has detailed instructions that include pictures and videos.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Measurement: Comparing Dinosaurs

For Teachers 1st Standards
First Graders need to use direct and indirect comparisons to measure objects. Today they will use their new knowledge of dinosaurs to find the longest of the giant lizards.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Shortest to Longest You Knew It, Now Glue It!

For Teachers K
Kids need multiple experiences to practice what they've learned. This lesson plan is one in a series about measuring and ordering objects.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Capacity or Weight....it's Full of Beans!

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders will be using a hands-on approach to learning about length, capacity and weight.
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 8.9 Arc Length

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Recall that a portion of a circle is called an arc. One way to measure an arc is with degrees.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 2.md Growing Bean Plants

For Teachers 2nd
In this lesson plan students will grow a bean plant and record the length as the plant grows.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Metric Olympic Games (Intermediate)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This activity can be used to introduce the metric system to students.
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Conventions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A "convention" is "just the way a thing is done!". This reference material lists some common conventions (notational assumptions) for geometry and trigonometry.