3.MD Lesson Plans
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD
:"Measurement and Data"
These lesson plans can help students practice this Common Core State Standards skill.
Lesson Plans
Elapseable
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Elapseable
It's time to learn about time. In this hands-on lesson, students manipulate clock hands and jump across timelines in order to calculate the "distance" between different times and events.
2nd Grade
Math
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A Liter Please
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A Liter Please
This lesson introduces students to measuring and estimating liquid volume, using liters (l) as the standard unit of measurement.
3rd Grade
Math
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Find The Perimeter: Real Life Objects
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Find The Perimeter: Real Life Objects
This lesson on perimeter will let your students walk around the class to see the border, use a measuring tape to measure the walls in their classroom, and enable them to understand how math is related to real life!
3rd Grade
Math
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Finding the Area of a Rectangle
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Finding the Area of a Rectangle
Let your students learn how to find the area of rectangular objects by doing hands-on activities. Your students will love finding the area of various rectangular objects around the classroom!
3rd Grade
Math
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Organize Your Data
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Organize Your Data
Collect and graph! In this lesson, your students will practice collecting, organizing, and interpreting data by using real life examples.
3rd Grade
Math
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Finding Area
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Finding Area
Looking for a fun way to reinforce multiplication and area finding skills? This hands-on lesson gives students a chance to create their own multiplication equations by making rectangular models.
3rd Grade
Math
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Gram I Am
Lesson plan
Gram I Am
How do your students measure up when it comes to metrics? This lesson introduces young mathematicians to grams and kilograms and allows them to explore the units' real world applications.
3rd Grade
Math
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Time to the Nearest Minute
Lesson plan
Time to the Nearest Minute
Teach your students a vital life skill with this lesson on telling time to the nearest minute! Students will be hands on changing the times on their own clocks and get plenty of practice reading times both with the class and individually.
3rd Grade
Math
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Just a Minute
Lesson plan
Just a Minute
Help your students learn how long a minute is with this lesson that shows them how the length of a minute can appear to change depending on the activity, all while putting their time estimation skills to the test.
3rd Grade
Math
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Finding Perimeter
Lesson plan
Finding Perimeter
In this lesson, students will find the perimeter of figures using cheese crackers. Next, they'll design a floor plan for their cheese cracker dream house, to help them practice and retain the formula for finding perimeter.
3rd Grade
Math
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Timeline Solutions for Time Problems
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Timeline Solutions for Time Problems
Teach your students to add and subtract time using number lines. Your class will be gladly moving backwards and forward to the minute solving for related word problems.
3rd Grade
Math
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Geometry Real Word Problems
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Geometry Real Word Problems
Students will solve area problems by multiplying side lengths for rectangular shapes in real world contexts.
3rd Grade
Math
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Beyond Just Addition
Lesson plan
Beyond Just Addition
In this interactive lesson that includes the use of clock manipulatives, students will discover that addition goes beyond straightforward addition problems. Finding the elapsed time is easy with addition!
3rd Grade
Math
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Area: Whole, Parts, and Shapes
Lesson plan
Area: Whole, Parts, and Shapes
Use this lesson to help your students learn about partitioning shapes into parts with equal areas. Students will explain rectangular shape area in fractions of a whole.
3rd Grade
Math
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Asking and Answering Questions about Line Plots and Bar Graphs
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Asking and Answering Questions about Line Plots and Bar Graphs
Take students’ understanding of bar graphs and line plots to the next level. This lesson will encourage students to think about how graphs are designed and the questions we can ask and answer about data presented in graphs.
3rd Grade
Math
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What is it Telling Me? Creating and Interpreting Line Plots
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What is it Telling Me? Creating and Interpreting Line Plots
Line plots are a great way to introduce your students to graphing data. In this lesson, your students will learn how to create a line plot and also practice interpreting line plots.
3rd Grade
Math
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Perimeter with Geoboards
Lesson plan
Perimeter with Geoboards
A hands-on approach makes geometry fun! Use this lesson to teach your students about the basics of perimeter with geoboards.
3rd Grade
Math
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It's Time to Celebrate the Chinese New Year!
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It's Time to Celebrate the Chinese New Year!
Celebrating the Chinese New Year is fun for family and friends! Use this lesson to teach your students some of the holiday's traditions and events as they practice solving word problems, which involve time and all four math operations.
3rd Grade
Math
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Perimeter of Polygons
Lesson plan
Perimeter of Polygons
Finding the perimeter of a polygon is a simple process with addition! Use this lesson to teach your students how to find the perimeter of polygons.
3rd Grade
Math
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Multiplication and Area in the Community Garden
Lesson plan
Multiplication and Area in the Community Garden
Help your students get creative as they apply multiplication skills to find the area of a community garden of their own design! In this lesson, students will practice finding the area of a rectangle within a real-world context.
3rd Grade
Math
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Multiplication and Area
Lesson plan
Multiplication and Area
Introduce your students to area and teach them to use the formula Area = Length x Width within the context of real world problems.
3rd Grade
Math
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Get There On Time: Elapsed Time Word Problem Strategies
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Get There On Time: Elapsed Time Word Problem Strategies
In this lesson, students will practice strategies of subtracting time and apply them to real life scenarios. Also, use this game with the lesson that teaches addition of elapsed time called Beyond Just Addition.
3rd Grade
Math
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Heights on a Data Line Plot
Lesson plan
Heights on a Data Line Plot
Measure to the nearest quarter-inch with your students and teach them to organize data into a line plot graph using this highly interactive lesson plan!
3rd Grade
Math
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Let’s Find Out! Answering Questions by Collecting and Organizing Data
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Let’s Find Out! Answering Questions by Collecting and Organizing Data
Your students will practice data collection and graphing while learning more about each other. Your data scientists will craft a survey question, collect data from the class, and then create a bar graph to represent their findings.
3rd Grade
Math
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Interpreting Line Plots, Bar Graphs and Picture Graphs: Word Problems
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Interpreting Line Plots, Bar Graphs and Picture Graphs: Word Problems
Graphs bring data to life and help us draw conclusions about the information. In this lesson, students will engage with three different kinds of graphs by asking and answering interpretive questions.
3rd Grade
Math
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Estimating Measurements of Mass and Volume Using Metric Units
Lesson plan
Estimating Measurements of Mass and Volume Using Metric Units
Students will become more familiar with common metric measurements by matching everyday objects with the metric mass and volume units they would use to measure them.
3rd Grade
Math
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Solving Word Problems Involving Mass and Volume
Lesson plan
Solving Word Problems Involving Mass and Volume
Students will become more familiar with common metric measurements when working with mass and volume. In this lesson, kids tackle three worksheets to practice solving one-step metric unit word problems.
3rd Grade
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Calculate Perimeter
Lesson plan
Calculate Perimeter
Make real world connections with your students when it comes to perimeter. Use this geometry lesson with your students to discuss real contexts and teach them how to calculate perimeter.
3rd Grade
Math
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Making Measurements for Line Plots
Lesson plan
Making Measurements for Line Plots
In this hands-on lesson, your students will get to sharpen their measuring skills as they measure lengths of items in your classroom to the nearest quarter inch. They'll get to then use their data to create line plots.
3rd Grade
Math
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Polygon Perimeters with Tantalizing Tangrams!
Lesson plan
Polygon Perimeters with Tantalizing Tangrams!
Teach your students to find the perimeter of polygons using real world examples. They will make polygon pictures using tangrams and practice finding the perimeters of the polygons in their masterpieces.
3rd Grade
Math
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