Convert within a single system of measurement using the units: yards, feet, inches; kilometers, meters, centimeters, millimeters; pounds, ounces; kilograms, grams; gallons, quarts, pints, cups; liter, milliliter; and hours, minutes, seconds.
Instruction includes the understanding of how to convert from smaller to larger units or from larger to smaller units.
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Access Point Title |
| MA.4.M.1.AP.2a | Explore relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units including yards, feet, inches; pounds, ounces; gallons, quarts, pints, cups; and hours, minutes. |
| MA.4.M.1.AP.2b | Using a conversion sheet, convert from a larger to a smaller unit within a single system of measurement using the units: yards, feet, inches; pounds, ounces; gallons, quarts, pints, cups; and hours, minutes. Only whole number measurements may be used. |
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Description |
| The Great Sneaker Design Challenge | The practice of science is collaborative and exciting. This lesson engages students as a STEM team working collaboratively to provide a company with the best sneaker design.
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 |
| Free Flight in Return for your Ranking! | In this Model Eliciting Activity, MEA, students will rank four promotional deals that a travel agency is running. Before they make their decision, the students must find the discounted price by multiplying a whole number by a fraction and convert the duration of the trip to the same unit.
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
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| Park Planning | Students are asked to plan a playground for a new park within a given budget and area limit. They will analyze the best use of playground equipment using a data table of area requirements and cost. Students will convert units within a single measurement system, calculate the area of a rectangle, and perform addition/subtraction calculations involving money using decimal notation. |
| Let's Think in Small Units | In this lesson students will make and complete tables to express larger unit measurements in terms of a smaller unit within one system of units. They will use the chart to make comparisons and explain their reasoning. |
| Tennis Lessons | This MEA asks students to take on the job of a tennis pro and decide which factors are most important in choosing a facility to take tennis lessons. Students will perform math calculations, create a two-column table for hours and minutes, develop a procedure to rank facilities, and provide written feedback through letters to a parent whose child needs group tennis lessons and writes letters to ask for advice. They will rank their choices from "best to worst" tennis lesson facilities. Students will provide a detailed written explanation for how they decided to rank factors and their solution for rating tennis lesson facilities.
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 processes. 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 MEAs visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx |
| Walk This Way | Students will be asked to rank the different floor tiles for the playrooms in activity centers throughout community parks. They will need to take certain factors into consideration when making their rankings. They will also need to calculate the costs of installing the floor tiles using the given measurement of the playroom and the floor tiles. The "twist" will be that the client now needs to include a storage room for some of the playroom's equipment. They will need to decide if to use the same floor tile or different from the playroom and the additional cost of the storage closet. After, they will add the total costs of the playroom and the storage closet. They will report their findings and reasons by writing letters to the client.
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 |
| Wondrous Water Parks | This activity requires students to apply their knowledge of unit conversions, speed calculation, and comparing fractions to solve the problem of which water park their class should choose to go on for their 5th grade class trip. |
| Fish Ahoy Fish | Students will work in groups to assist a client in purchasing different fish for a fish pond. From a data table, they will need to decide which type of fish and how many fish to purchase according to the size of the each pond. After, they will need to revisit a revised data table to make different selection of fish and calculate costs for the purchase of the fish.
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 |
| Give An Inch, Take A Foot | In this activity students practice measuring techniques by measuring different objects and distances around the classroom. They practice using different scales of measurement in metric units and estimation. |
| On the Hunt for Measurements: Estimation, Area and Perimeter of Rectangles | Students look for rectangular objects in the classroom or on the school campus that match the measurements for given clues. Students will estimate the measurements of the object, then take the exact measurements and use this information to determine its area and perimeter. |
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Description |
| Unit Conversion: Ordering Metric Distances Example | This Khan Academy tutorial video demonstrates a strategy for ordering four different-sized metric length units. |
| Time Word Problem: When to Leave to Get Home on Time | In this Khan Academy tutorial video Chris is told to be home by 6:15. You know the number of minutes it takes him to get home. What time should he leave? |
| U.S. Customary Units: Distance | This Khan Academy tutorial video presents conventional examples that use specific customary units |
| How to convert kilograms to milligrams and tons to ounces | In this tutorial video from Khan Academy, explore the differences and similarities involved when converting between measurements in the metric and customary systems. |
| How to convert gallons to quarts, quarts to pints, pints to cups, and cups to ounces | In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, explore converting between gallons, quarts, pints, cups, and fluid ounces. |
| How to convert kilometers to meters and meters centimeters | In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, explore conversion within metric units of length, such as: kilometers, meters and centimeters. |
| How to convert hours to minutes and minutes to seconds | In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, explore conversion of units of time between hours, minutes and seconds. |
| U.S. customary units: fluid volume | In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, explore U.S. customary units of fluid volume (teaspoon, tablespoon, fluid ounce, cup, pint, quart, and gallon). |
| U.S. customary units: weight | In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, explore pounds, ounces and tons. |
| Name |
Description |
| Unit Conversion: Ordering Metric Distances Example: | This Khan Academy tutorial video demonstrates a strategy for ordering four different-sized metric length units. |
| Time Word Problem: When to Leave to Get Home on Time: | In this Khan Academy tutorial video Chris is told to be home by 6:15. You know the number of minutes it takes him to get home. What time should he leave? |
| U.S. Customary Units: Distance: | This Khan Academy tutorial video presents conventional examples that use specific customary units |
| How to convert kilograms to milligrams and tons to ounces: | In this tutorial video from Khan Academy, explore the differences and similarities involved when converting between measurements in the metric and customary systems. |
| How to convert gallons to quarts, quarts to pints, pints to cups, and cups to ounces: | In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, explore converting between gallons, quarts, pints, cups, and fluid ounces. |
| How to convert kilometers to meters and meters centimeters: | In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, explore conversion within metric units of length, such as: kilometers, meters and centimeters. |
| How to convert hours to minutes and minutes to seconds: | In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, explore conversion of units of time between hours, minutes and seconds. |
| U.S. customary units: fluid volume: | In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, explore U.S. customary units of fluid volume (teaspoon, tablespoon, fluid ounce, cup, pint, quart, and gallon). |
| U.S. customary units: weight: | In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, explore pounds, ounces and tons. |
| Name |
Description |
| How to convert kilograms to milligrams and tons to ounces: | In this tutorial video from Khan Academy, explore the differences and similarities involved when converting between measurements in the metric and customary systems. |
| How to convert gallons to quarts, quarts to pints, pints to cups, and cups to ounces: | In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, explore converting between gallons, quarts, pints, cups, and fluid ounces. |
| How to convert kilometers to meters and meters centimeters: | In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, explore conversion within metric units of length, such as: kilometers, meters and centimeters. |
| How to convert hours to minutes and minutes to seconds: | In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, explore conversion of units of time between hours, minutes and seconds. |
| U.S. customary units: fluid volume: | In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, explore U.S. customary units of fluid volume (teaspoon, tablespoon, fluid ounce, cup, pint, quart, and gallon). |
| U.S. customary units: weight: | In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, explore pounds, ounces and tons. |
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