Standard 1: Measure the length of objects and solve problems involving length.

Students are asked to estimate a predetermined length in yards.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students use a ruler or yardstick to measure a length to the nearest foot.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to solve problems requiring addition of measures.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students use subtraction to solve problems requiring subtraction of measures.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students measure the length of a line segment twice and are given an opportunity to explain why the line segment measures in fewer meters than centimeters.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students measure the length of a line twice and are given an opportunity to explain why the line measures in fewer feet than inches.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to write an equation for and solve a Compare (Difference Unknown) problem in a measurement context.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to determine how many inches longer one line segment is than another.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students shown images of a grasshopper and a dragonfly and are asked to determine how much longer one is than the other.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students measure their pencils to the nearest whole inch.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students measure the width of their hands to the nearest whole centimeter.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students measure the length of a line segment twice, once using inches and again using centimeters, and are asked to explain why the two measures are different.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are given the length of an alligator in both feet and yards and are asked to explain why the measure given in feet is greater than the measure given in yards.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are shown the paths that two different ants took and are asked to determine how much longer one path is than the other.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are shown a zigzag figure and are asked to determine how much longer the longest segment is than the shortest.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students use a ruler and piece of string to measure the length of a curve.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students use a ruler to measure one segment to the nearest inch and one segment to the nearest centimeter.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to estimate the length of a table in feet.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to estimate a predetermined length in meters.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to estimate the length of a line segment in centimeters.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to estimate the length of a piece of paper in inches.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students choose an appropriate tool to measure a hallway.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students use a ruler to measure a 17 inch segment to the nearest inch.

Type: Formative Assessment

In this lesson students will be exploring the force of wind and its affect on objects. Students will use the engineering design process to sketch, build, and assess how their structure withstands different forces of wind.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will explore airplanes in this project-based lesson/unit with multiple lessons that are all tied to a final project.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will explore the fundamentals of adding measurements involving shapes. Students will practice measuring the sides of rectangles and engage in an extended problem-solving task that includes adding to find the distance around rectangles.

Type: Lesson Plan

This Engineering Design Challenge is a hands-on investigation in both math and science. Students will be able to use prior knowledge and problem solving skills to solve non-routine problems and real-world situations, using mathematical and scientific models. It is a great way to introduce your students to real-world problem solving. Students will be engaged in hands-on learning by designing and creating an enclosure for zoo animals. Both math and science standards have been incorporated for an integrated lesson.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will measure the lengths of two objects to the nearest inch and determine the difference in the objects' lengths.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson is a culminating activity for the end of a unit on measurement. Students focus on selecting tools for measuring various objects, justifying why they picked a certain tool.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will create line plots based on linear measurements that they collect while participating in the practice of scientific inquiry.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson is designed for students who already have a basic understanding of how to measure using rulers, yardsticks, or meter sticks. Students will first use given measurements of buildings to determine the difference between two objects’ lengths. Then, students will use their own measurement data to determine the difference between objects’ lengths.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson is designed to teach students how to use rulers and meter sticks to measure the length of objects in centimeters or meters. Students will think about which tool is most efficient for measuring objects based on their lengths.

Type: Lesson Plan

This activity includes students creating benchmark lengths for 1 centimeter, 1 inch, 1 foot, and 1 meter. Students are challenged to use their benchmarks to estimate the lengths of various classroom objects and then measure the actual lengths in order to compare the estimate to the actual length.

Type: Lesson Plan

This Engineering Design Challenge is intended to help students apply the concepts of force from SC.2.P.13.1 (investigate the effect of applying various pushes and pulls on different objects) and the concept of wind from SC.2.E.7.4 (investigate that air is all around us and that moving air is wind) as they build structures to withstand the force of high-speed winds. It is not intended as an initial introduction to these concepts.

Type: Lesson Plan

This Engineering Design Challenge is intended to help students apply the concepts of force as they build bridges to hold the greatest load. It is also intended to help students apply the concepts of money as they strive to construct the most cost effective bridge. It is not intended as an initial introduction to these concepts.

Type: Lesson Plan

This is a hands-on lesson that allows students to practice measuring different lengths of objects and writing equations to determine the difference between their lengths.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will measure the length of given objects using various measuring tools. The students will record their measurements using different units including inches, feet, and yards to the nearest whole unit. Students will also estimate and measure the lengths of objects, then compare their estimations to their measurements to find the difference.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will create pictographs or bar graphs based on linear measurements that they collect while participating in the practice of scientific inquiry.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will use their knowledge of units of measurement to estimate the length of objects in centimeters and inches. Students will use rulers to confirm their estimations. Students will engage in communication and cooperative learning by sharing strategies, comparing answers and defending their work.

Type: Lesson Plan

Add and subtract within 100 to solve word problems involving lengths in the same units to fix the construction mix-up at a school in this interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

A 6 foot bug? No way! Learn how to estimate length using inches, feet and yards by using objects around you in this interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Learn different strategies for adding two-digit numbers and solve problems involving lengths as you complete this interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

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 activity, students will create life size chalk drawings of J.J. the gray whale to discover the size and growth rate of juvenile gray whales.

Type: Teaching Idea