Standard 1: Identify and compare measurable attributes of objects.

Students describe the measurable attributes of an unsharpened pencil and a sharpened pencil.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students compare their heights to that of a partner and describe the difference in their heights.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students use color tiles to measure the lengths of two figures shown on the accompanying worksheet.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students use paper clips to measure the length of two pictured items.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students determine their heights determined by cutting a length of string to show this measurement. Then using snap cubes they measure the length of the string.

Note: The measurement of the string will extend past 20 units, use this task with students who demonstrate a readiness to go beyond the measurement of 20 units.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to use cubes to determine the length of different sized edges of a book.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students measure the length of an unsharpened pencil with paper clips.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students use color tiles to measure the length of rectangles.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students describe an elephant in terms of weight and length.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students describe a paper clip in terms of weight and length.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to compare the lengths of their arms to items around the classroom.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students compare the weights of two sandwich bags, one containing cotton balls and one containing rice.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students compare the lengths of two trains of cubes and are assessed in order to determine if they understand conservation of length.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to compare the lengths of two pieces of string.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to name at least three measurable attributes of a car and what could be measured for each object, length or weight.

Type: Formative Assessment

In this integrated lesson plan, students will use stuffed animals and objects from lesson 1 to directly compare the measurable attributes of two objects.  They will work in groups and practice decision making by comparing various objects. 

Type: Lesson Plan

While working in groups and incorporating the importance of following rules, students will use stuffed animals to describe and compare attributes such as length, volume, or weight in this integrated lesson plan.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will use the measurement language 'taller' and 'shorter' to compare their height to another classmate and to the heights of items in the classroom.

Type: Lesson Plan

Be a winner at measuring length by learning how to measure from end to end! Students will learn where the first end and the last end are on an object. They will learn about lining up multiple copies of a non-standard measurement unit, with no gaps or overlaps, from end to end along the length of the object being measured and expressing the object’s length as the number of non-standard measurement units needed.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this MEA, students will help pick a flower that will be the focus of the Spring Festival.  They will practice counting pictures and representing the number of pictures with a written numeral.

Type: Lesson Plan

This MEA lesson is designed for a Kindergarten grade level. Students will be working in small groups to figure out what moving company is best for a family that is moving to a different state and they will learn about weight by differentiating between heavy items and lighter items. The students will be using criteria such as pricing, moving of vehicles, speed, safety and overall rating.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson is intended to allow students to gain insight into the importance of measurement. The focus is on using non-standard units to measure the length of a "train" they create. Students are then required to compare the length of their train with a buddy's train.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will practice measuring items within the classroom to explore differences in length. The teacher will give a specific measurement size for the students to match with common classroom objects to explore longer and shorter lengths.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson uses an "I do, We do, You do" approach to comparing and describing objects using weight. The students will use manipulatives to investigate and compare the weight of given objects. This lesson covers only one attribute of the standard. This lesson is a great way to get students involved in their learning and to help foster a love of math. Included in the lesson is a formative and summative assessment to help monitor the students' progress and understanding of the lesson.

Type: Lesson Plan

This is an engaging, hands-on lesson to help the students understand the meaning of the equal sign. The lesson is written using a pan/equal arm balance but may be done with just connecting cubes.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students explore lengths of fish to determine if fish are too long to fit in different sized aquariums. Students will use non-standard units and measuring tools to compare the lengths of fish and boxes without being able to directly hold the fish near the boxes.

Type: Lesson Plan

The students will be working in whole group, small group and individually to discover measurable attributes of objects and sort the objects into categories. Students will also count and compare the number of objects in each category. 

Type: Lesson Plan

In this dinosaur-themed lesson, students will use dinosaur manipulatives (and the teacher will demonstrate using a longer dinosaur footprint print-out) as units for nonstandard measurement of length. Students will use length comparison statements.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will help Mr. Bob Fitness choose a piece of sports equipment for his new store. Students will work with three-dimensional shapes and determine a procedure in choosing the equipment.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem, while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought process. MEAs follow a problem-based, student centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEA’s visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will describe and compare measurable attributes of candy bars as well as work to find objects that are longer than and shorter than a specified object.

Type: Lesson Plan

The purpose of this task is for students to measure something that interests them (namely themselves) by laying multiple copies of a shorter object that represents the length unit end to end. This task provides students an opportunity to discuss the need to be careful when measuring as it is very likely that some of them will get incorrect comparisons of their leg length with their partner's leg length.

Type: Problem-Solving Task

The purpose of this task is to help students learn how to take measurements.

Type: Problem-Solving Task

In this task, students work in pairs to measure a block using paperclips.

Type: Problem-Solving Task

This is a professional development session from the Learning Math series from Annenberg. Learners will begin to explore the questions "What can be measured?" and "What does it mean to measure something?" Learners identify measurable properties of objects such as weight, surface area, and volume, and discuss which metric units are appropriate for measuring these properties. Learners will also learn that measurement is, by its nature, approximate. Finally, learners will consider how to make measurements using nonstandard units. This session features a number of problems for learners to solve and open-ended questions to discuss, videos that demonstrate measurement techniques, and an interactive activity that asks learners to construct shapes using different size triangles to foster understanding of area and perimeter. There are also nine homework problems in which learners are asked to generate different measurements, graph measurements, and evaluate the appropriateness of the measurements generated using a data chart. Many of the professional development activities can be used directly in the classroom.

Type: Professional Development

In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, called, "Measuring a golden statue", we see an example of how to solve a problem in which we measure an object with same-size length units that span it with no gaps or overlaps.

Type: Tutorial