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| Flying Objects (lesson plan) - This activity is a culminating activity that provides an application to measurement and to flying objects. |
| Whale Measurements (lesson plan) - Students will use problem solving skills to understand how their size relates to actual whale sizes through a measurement activity, followed by a graphing exercise. |
Length/Distance
| How Much Is A Million? (lesson plan) - After listening to the story, How Much is a Million? , students work in groups to determine the following: how long one million dollars would be laid out end to end and how tall a stack of one million pennies would be |
| How Long is Your Smile? - students measure smiles and create one large small using class total; from Georgia Learning Connections. |
Time
| How Much Time Has Passed (lesson plan) - Students work hands-on with traditional clocks to discover elapsed time. |
Time Relationships
Calendar
| Time Flies - offers practice in creating and using calendars; from Georgia Learning Connections. |
Use Ruler/Customary
| Measurement of Objects (lesson plan) - Students will learn how to measure objects and will become comfortable with using a ruler. |
| Tree Measurement (lesson plan) - This activity is used to help understand vertical and horizontal measurement of large objects |
Use Ruler/Metric
| Smile Metric Style (lesson plan) - The students will be able to accurately use a metric ruler to measure length,. accurately read and record measurements taken in centimeters and millimeters, find a sum of multiple metric measurements, compare and order individual measurements, use a histogram to graph their results. |
| How Long Is It? - students estimate and measure using centimeters and millimeters; printable practice sheet; from Georgia Learning Connections. |
Mass/Weight
| Down the Speedway - uses toy cars to determine how weight affects length of travel; from Georgia Learning Connections. |
| Heavy Weights - students graph weight of classmates and determine what they are worth according to their weight; from Georgia Learning Connections. |
| A Lengthy Comparison - students compare present height and weight to birth and make predictions about their adult height and weight; from Georgia Learning Connections. |
Temperature
| How Hot Is It? - students estimate temperatures and different times of the day and then test their estimations. |
Area/Counting
Area/Formula
| Sizes of the World's Oceans (lesson plan) - Students will use the World Almanac to determine the area of each of the world’s four largest oceans and the area of the United States |
| Measurement (area & perimeter) - Students will be able to demonstrate that objects with the same perimeter do not necessarily have the same area. |
| Exploring Area and Perimeter - teaches finding area and includes an Internet activity; from Georgia Learning Connections. |
Volume/Capacity
Estimate
| Math Giants! - estimation lesson based on Jack and the Beanstalk; from Georgia Learning Connections. |
| Watch Out for that Tree! - an outdoor activity where students use estimation to measure trees; from Georgia Learning Connections. |
Scale, Draw, Map & Model
Perimeter
Convert Metric
| Magnifying Milligrams - group activity teaching converting grams and milligrams; from Georgia Learning Connections. |
Convert Customary
Select Appropriate Tool
Select Appropriate Unit
| Eenie Meanie Miney Moe - lesson plan on selecting appropriate unit of measure with printable worksheets; from Georgia Learning Connections. |
| Mixed Up Mounds - students work to put a mixed up recipe back together; a fun cooking activity. |
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