Meters Everywhere!

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Ask students to estimate about how many meters tall you are. Have a student come up to the front of the class and measure you using the meter stick. Have them give your measurement both in meters and centimeters, rounding up to the closest meter.

Guided Practice

• If you have enough meter sticks, have students split up into partners to measure each other’s heights using meter sticks.
• If you don’t have enough meter sticks, have students take turns coming up to the front of the class to measure their heights. You don’t need to have everyone measure their heights if time runs out.

Independent working time

Hand out the Meters Everywhere and How Many Meters? worksheets. Have students cut out the shrunken meter sticks and use them to measure the objects on the worksheets.