- Balancing Act - Learn about matter while practicing your weighing skills. Can you balance the scale?
- Dinosaurs Measure Up - You can learn things you never knew about dinosaurs in Creature Feature. Look at online pictures of three different kinds of dinosaurs and answer questions involving metric measurement.
- Marine Measurement - After students have been introduced to metric measures of length, capacity, and mass, bring them to Two Oceans Aquarium Exhibits, where they can practice renaming metric units.
- Math Matching - Customary Measures - Students match the equivalent customary measures.
- Math Matching - Metric - Students find matching equivalent metric measures.
- Measurement Man - Students will learn/recognize the relationship between liquid measurements as they create a "Measurement Man".
- Sporting Sizes - This activity provides measurement facts about popular sporting equipment that students can use to practice their estimating skills.
- Tree Measurement - Take your class outdoors to teach them about the horizontal and vertical measurement of large objects.
- Wise Up - Measurement - Students learn about measurement with this interactive, fun activity. Don't miss the activity, fact sheet and the test!
Typical Course of Study - Mathematics
Customary and Metric Measurements - 2
By Beverly Hernandez, About.com
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