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This support lesson provides students the opportunity to use two different tools to measure the length of familiar objects while introducing content specific vocabulary words. Use alone or alongside the lesson How Big is the Playground?

Your young scientists will have tons of fun visiting measurement stations and using tools to measure various objects. They'll even be able to create posters at the end of the activity.

Look out! Measurement is all around us! In this lesson, students will learn about measuring tools and how to use them. Students will work cooperatively on a fun measurement hunt, exploring and applying concepts of measurement using inches.

Students will begin to calculate volume of different rectangular prisms using base ten cubes and then transition to using the formula V = L x W x H. Students will then practice using the legendary fifth grade activity, Cootie Catchers.

Engage students in learning about data by analyzing picture graphs, then collecting data from classmates and making their own graphs!

Do you feel like your students are on a merry-go-round when it comes to rounding? This lesson will give your student control of the “ride” and give them tools to use when rounding.

This tasty lesson will teach second graders about fractions using cookies.

There’s more than one way to add and subtract mixed numbers! Use this witty lesson plan to teach your students to illustrate mixed number sums and difference while giggling with delight.

Give your students some early practice with shapes using this simple lesson. Young learners will have a great time creating shapes using pieces of string.

Teach your students to calculate fractions of 100 using a number line model.

Practice finding unknown numbers in addition equations using fun and silly word problems.

Students will learn out how to partition a rectangle using by partitioning shapes with rows and columns.

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.

In this fun lesson, your class will love learning how to count on using hilarious read alouds as their guide!

Students will learn to model mixed number subtraction with manipulatives using this hands-on lesson plan.

Help your students learn about keeping track of numbers using one-to-one correspondance in this fun lesson!

Students participate in a classroom scavenger hunt with a partner to measure common classroom objects using a ruler.

This lesson helps students review rounding to the nearest hundred. Your students will practice rounding using manipulatives.

In this counting lesson plan, your ELs will get lots of practice identifying and writing numbers using a high interest nature focus!

In this lesson, your students will get hands-on practice comparing quantities! Students will compare using buttons, blocks, and their classmates.

Delicious multiplication! In this sweet lesson, your students will learn how to relate multiplication to repeated addition using candy counters.

Help your students use rulers in the classroom with this lesson! Encourage them to measure items around them using centimeters to understand shapes and sizes.

In this tactile lesson, students will understand how decimals relate to a whole number by using base 10 blocks in a whole new way!

Advance your students from relative measurements to learning about standardized units with this lesson that teaches them about inches and feet by using common classroom objects.

This engaging math lesson combines all of your kid's fall favorites as they learn to represent data using a bar graph.

In this engaging, hands-on lesson, students solidify their understanding of place value by adding and regrouping two-digit numbers using M&Ms.

Students will love composing shapes using tangrams in this hands-on lesson! Use this plan alone or as a support lesson plan for the Tangrams: An Ancient Chinese Puzzle lesson plan.

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.

Using this interactive lesson plan, your students will learn to read, write, and compare decimals to thousandths with a partner.

Dive deep into using base-ten blocks to solve two-digit subtraction problems with regrouping. This lesson can be used independently or in conjuction with the lesson Double Trouble: Subtraction Practice.