I've heard it from teacher after teacher: " I dread teaching measurement every year. " It's hard to blame them. There's nothing ground-shaking about measurement. There's nothing exciting about metric vs. customary. It's just one of those skills that our stud
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Find a huge collection of reading a ruler worksheets and activities. These lessons are hands-on and engaging for students!
Teaching measurement to upper elementary students should be an adventure filled with hands-on excitement! After all, who wouldn't love exploring the world of inches, feet, and meters? So, grab your tape measures and calculators because, in this post, I’m diving into how to expertly teach measurement to upper elementary students. 📐✨ This post may contain
Break out the rulers and measuring tapes!
Want a fun way to teach measurement that can be adapted for all students? Let me introduce MEASUREMENT TAG!
I've heard it from teacher after teacher: " I dread teaching measurement every year. " It's hard to blame them. There's nothing ground-shaking about measurement. There's nothing exciting about metric vs. customary. It's just one of those skills that our stud
Fun, engaging idea for teaching non-standard measurement! FREE printable school bus measurement activities for preschoolers & kindergarten.
Teaching measurement to upper elementary students should be an adventure filled with hands-on excitement! After all, who wouldn't love exploring the world of inches, feet, and meters? So, grab your tape measures and calculators because, in this post, I’m diving into how to expertly teach measurement to upper elementary students. 📐✨ This post may contain
Teaching measurement has never been more fun when you use these 2 review activities and 8 real-world, project-based challenges with your upper elementary or middle school students.
We are coming up to measurement in our curriculum and I have always felt that we needed more hands on experience in this area. This year our objectives include not...
Discover five effective and engaging activities and tools to use with upper grade students learning measurement conversions.
This month we worked on measurement! The FDK expectation that we focused on was: M2.1 compare and order two or more objects according to an appropriate measure (e.g., length, mass, area, temperature, capacity) and use measurement terms (e.g., hot/cold for temperature, small/medium/large for capacity, longer/shorter or thicker/thinner for length). Here is our math wall at the end of our unit: We started by learning about capacity. One activity we did was writing about what the kids are bigger than after reading the book "I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean" by Kevin Sherry. "I am bigger than a baby." "I am bigger than a worm." "I am bigger than my baby brother." "I am bigger than a butterfly." "I am bigger than my Dora snacks." Next we talked about length. We talked about and compared lengths whole group and then we practiced ordering items from shortest to longest and longest to shortest in small groups. Then we moved on to temperature. You can read about our temperature activities in depth here. Finally we talked about mass. First we read this book "Heavy or Light". Then the students came up with their own heavy or light items. The next day we started to compare using the terms heavier/lighter. We held a water bottle in our hands and then came up with items that were heavier or lighter than a water bottle. (Please excuse the yogurt stains all over the bottom of the chart.. one of my friends had a little yogurt explosion accident at snack time one day!) One activity that was available during centres was this light and heavy t-chart. Since we have done this activity with many other measurement concepts (cold/hot, small/big) they were familiar with what to do and could complete it independently or with each other's help :) Here is a student example. Light = a lollipop Heavy = tree We also used scales to figure out which items were lighter/heavier but unfortunately I don't have any pictures of that :( That's a snapshot of all of the measurement activities that we have done so far! How do you teach measurement? ___________________________________________________________________ Added 08.11.21: I now have a full non-standard measurement unit with lesson plans and printables! Click here or on the image below if you are interested in taking a look: I also now have a digital non-standard measurement unit! Click here or on the images below if you are interested in checking that one out:
We are coming up to measurement in our curriculum and I have always felt that we needed more hands on experience in this area. This year our objectives include not...
KINDERGARTEN MATH - UNIT 3 I am so excited to have my new Measurement and Data kindergarten math unit posted and ready to share with you. So far this year, my sweet kinders have learned so much in math. We have mastered 1:1 correspondence, reading and writing numerals to 20, counting to 10
These measurement activities for preschoolers are great for introducing measurement concepts in a practical, hands-on way.
Break out the rulers and measuring tapes!
Measurement concepts benefit from hands-on learning! Help your K-3 learn non-standard units of measure & how to use a ruler. Get 20 ideas for measurement today!
We are coming up to measurement in our curriculum and I have always felt that we needed more hands on experience in this area. This year our objectives include not...
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KINDERGARTEN MATH - UNIT 3 I am so excited to have my new Measurement and Data kindergarten math unit posted and ready to share with you. So far this year, my sweet kinders have learned so much in math. We have mastered 1:1 correspondence, reading and writing numerals to 20, counting to 10
Help kindergarteners compare length & use appropriate vocabulary with this FREE "Shorter and Longer" activity. Great hands on practice for comparing length.
We are coming up to measurement in our curriculum and I have always felt that we needed more hands on experience in this area. This year our objectives include not...
We are coming up to measurement in our curriculum and I have always felt that we needed more hands on experience in this area. This year our objectives include not...
We are coming up to measurement in our curriculum and I have always felt that we needed more hands on experience in this area. This year our objectives include not...
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We are coming up to measurement in our curriculum and I have always felt that we needed more hands on experience in this area. This year our objectives include not...
We are coming up to measurement in our curriculum and I have always felt that we needed more hands on experience in this area. This year our objectives include not...
We are coming up to measurement in our curriculum and I have always felt that we needed more hands on experience in this area. This year our objectives include not...
We are coming up to measurement in our curriculum and I have always felt that we needed more hands on experience in this area. This year our objectives include not...
We are coming up to measurement in our curriculum and I have always felt that we needed more hands on experience in this area. This year our objectives include not...
Teaching measurement to a kindergarten class is hard!!! I think it's one of the most challenging units, mainly because there's so much to measurement (length, height, weight, temperature, capacity) and some concepts (such as where to start measuring and where to end!) can be difficult for students to fully understand. I created my Measurement in Kindergarten unit keeping these things in mind. All of the activities are hands-on and have students learning through play. When I start planning for this unit, I think about breaking it up into different sections. I take the first week and focus on length and height. DAY 1 I start by writing each student's name on grid paper. I hand them out to the students and tell them that we will be finding out who has the longest name and who has the shortest name. They are usually really good at quickly figuring this out but we arrange the names on the carpet for all to see. I show them how we can line them up properly so it's easier to compare! Then we have a discussion about what measurement means and I show them the "Measurement" poster and we discuss the different ways we can measure things (i.e., length, height, capacity, temperature, weight). The poster has lots of graphics on it so I use those to explain the new words. I place a variety of non-standard measuring tools in baskets (i.e., Unifix cubes, linking chains, bear counters, Popsicle sticks, etc.) and we discuss the "Length/Height" poster. Students always love this poster because they quickly ask to measure a friend or even themselves! I have a couple of objects in front of me (i.e., a book) and show students how I can use my hands to show where to start and stop measuring! They quickly catch on to using their hands to guide them! Then we discuss other rules: choosing only one measuring tool, staying in a straight line, and leaving no spaces. I let them come up and show the class each rule. We co-create a "rules" poster and leave it up all week. DAY 2 The next day we start by reviewing our "rules" poster. I set up a variety of small plastic animals in a basket along with my non-standard measuring tools I introduced yesterday. I choose an animal and, using the 4 rules, show students how we can measure them! As a follow up, I sit with a small group of students and we use the Unifix cubes strips to practice measuring animals. This is a great activity when you are first getting started with measurement as I've realized the students aren't very familiar with how the rules actually work! HA! So I made the animal cards have start and ending lines and the Unifix cube strips fit exactly so that they can easily find the answer. I also like this activity to help students that may find the above activity a bit challenging. Everything is measured for them, but students must count how many objects tall or long it is. DAY 3 The next day I introduce the concept of how long something is in more detail. We review the rules poster and then discuss how some things are shorter and others are longer. I pre-cut strips of paper in various lengths (they are 'snakes') and hand them out to each student. We arrange them from shortest to longest. It's very similar to the name activity but it's much more challenging as the lengths are much different and some may even be the same! We also measure our feet! I have students take off their shoe and we trace around it. They show me where to start and stop measuring with their hands and I draw lines on their paper to help them. They choose a non-standard measuring tool and measure their foot! DAY 4 This is a cute video of Sid the Science Kid to show the students that helps explain measurement! I have a basket of crayons of various sizes (they are just crayons I collect from the baskets around the room!). I call a student to come to the front of the class and choose 3 crayons without looking. That student has to put them in order from shortest to longest. We play this simple game again and again! Students get to walk around the room and find objects to measure! I guide them with this worksheet - and print different ones so they aren't all using the same non-standard measurement too. So some worksheets may have them measuring with Unifix cubes, others with linking chains, etc. DAY 5 (picture coming soon!) We discuss the idea of height and I introduce this by choosing 2 students to come to the front and stand back to back. We talk about who is taller and who is shorter. I also explain that to measure each other using a non-standard measuring tool, it's often difficult to do so when the person is standing (I demonstrate this using linking chains). So I show them how we can lie down and use the tools to measure. Then I partner students up and have them practice showing where to start and end measuring each other. I give them a "Find It!" worksheet and ask them to search the room, finding objects that are shorter and longer than themselves and draw it on their paper. MATH CENTRE At my Math Centre, I leave out a variety of non-standard measuring tools in baskets for students to explore. I also encourage students to measure each other using apples! Yes, I pre-cut a basket full of clip art apples and they get such a kick out of using these! You can find all of these activities (and lesson plans, games and centres for Capacity, Weight, and Temperature) in my Measurement in Kindergarten pack on TpT. Here are my plans for teaching length and height for the week. You can download these lesson plans for FREE by clicking below.
These fun and engaging hands on measurement activities will help teachers plan and implement lessons on length, capacity and mass. Includes a FREEBIE!
KINDERGARTEN MATH - UNIT 3 I am so excited to have my new Measurement and Data kindergarten math unit posted and ready to share with you. So far this year, my sweet kinders have learned so much in math. We have mastered 1:1 correspondence, reading and writing numerals to 20, counting to 10
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