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.

For this fourth grade performance task, students measure tree leaves using metric units and make predictions about the length of other leaves on the tree. They also suggest other good questions they might ask about trees in the school...

Students will work in cooperative groups to discover the relationships between arc length, central angle measure, and circumference. They will also discover the relationship between circle area, central angle measures, and sector area....

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert metric units of measurement.

A four-step tutorial shows students how to use a pipet in general chemistry lab to make "precise and accurate" volume measurements. View the full-length lesson via streaming video [9:46] or in segments.

For the majority of recorded human history, units like the weight of a grain or the length of a hand weren't exact and varied from place to place. Now, consistent measurements are such an integral part of our daily lives that it's hard...

This hands-on, inquiry based lesson is an extension of the AMSTI Science Module, Solids and Liquids. Young scholars use nonstandard units to measure beans in a soup mix. Students predict how many beans will be in a scoop. Young scholars...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find unknown side lengths in similar figures.

The purpose of this lesson is to learn how to find the length, or perimeter of a polygon in real world tasks.

Students will investigate the attribute of length by using a common measurement tool such as snap or unifix cubes to directly measure objects in the classroom. Materials needed include various items to measure, a large set of cubes such...

A metric measurement lesson plan using grams, milliliters, and centimeters. This instructional activity offers a variety of "hands on" measurement activities using both the customary and metric systems. Additionally, this lesson plan...

An interactive web lesson teaches students about estimating units of measurement. It also offers practice questions to test students' understanding of the skill.

In this engaging instructional activity, students use a variety of measurement strategies in creating their own Sand Babies. Students explore standard and non-standard measurements, area, data collection and analysis, and graphing....

Students estimate the cost of building an Egyptian pyramid with modern materials and ancient building methods in this math project.

In this inquiry-based lesson, students will work in groups to gather measurements needed to approximate the height of a building. Students will discover how geometric mean can be used to find the lengths of missing sides of right...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identify equivalence among metric units of measure.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert among metric units of measure using powers of 10.

Browse resources related to first-grade math standards. Click on a topic for interactive lessons, videos, and extra practice.

In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad and Digit construct a physical profile of the person who kidnapped Choocroca, a giant cybercrocodile. [2:49]

In this lesson plan students will grow a bean plant and record the length as the plant grows.

In this lesson plan students will determine how big a foot is using a book, tools, and attached worksheets.

Determine the perimeter of a triangle and assess your knowledge with this lesson.

This activity uses data collection method for students to mathematically compute the height and shoulder width of the character Hagrid from Harry Potter. Students will measure their own heights and shoulder widths to come up with a class...

A video lesson that introduces the components of circular motion. Understand that any objects that rotates around a point is in circular motion. Video also explores how to measure how far an object has rotated. Video gives equation for...