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How big is the furniture in your classroom? Get ready to find out! In this lesson, students dive into measuring with yardsticks.  

Measuring Furniture

How big is a foot? Students find out to explore how to measure in feet by comparing their own feet to rulers. Then they set off to measure the length and width of the classroom!

Measuring Feet…in Feet!

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.

The Smaller They Come

Encourage your students to develop their own approach to measuring length with nonstandard units of length. Use this engaging lesson as a stand-alone lesson or alongside Measuring Feet...in Feet!

Exploring Nonstandard Units of Length

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.

Inches, All Around!

Get out the measuring tape and head outside! In this lesson, students gather measurement data and build a model of the school playground. 

How Big is the Playground?

Get ready to see green! In this lesson, students get hands-on experience creating trees and then measuring to compare the trees. 

Let's Make a Forest

Give your students practice creating models with fractions from recipes! Your students will build an appetite for learning all about fractions, while “filling” measuring cup models with different ingredients to represent fractions.

Fraction Foodie

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.

Making Measurements for Line Plots

In this lesson, your students will measure the lengths of items and then make a line plot to show the measurement data. They will get hands-on by measuring and surveying the class.


Line Plots: Representing the Length of Classroom Items

This lesson introduces students to measuring and estimating liquid volume, using liters (l) as the standard unit of measurement.

A Liter Please

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!

Find The Perimeter: Real Life Objects

It’s time to explore meters! In this lesson, students dive into measuring using meters, learning how to use meter sticks and  estimate length in meters.

Meters Everywhere!

Students will solve area problems by multiplying side lengths for rectangular shapes in real world contexts. 


Geometry Real Word Problems

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

Measure It, Man!

It’s time to head out onto the playground! Help Parker City design the best playground possible by having students solve real-world measurement problems.

Playground Puzzles

Subtraction can be learned and practiced through a pictograph! In this lesson, your students will become more comfortable with subtracting numbers.

Subtraction Pictograph

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?

Many Measurement Tools

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. 

Estimating Length

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.

Polygon Perimeters with Tantalizing Tangrams!

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!

Heights on a Data Line Plot

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. 

Perimeter of Polygons

In this lesson, students will practice identifying and modeling equivalent fractions by using number lines.

Fractions: All Lined Up

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. 

Solving Word Problems Involving Mass and Volume

In this lesson, you will teach your students how to count money to buy small items! Show students which coins they can use to buy their lunch and other small items in the classroom.

Do You Want More Coins or More Money?

Get your students explaining estimations and measurements of liquid volumes and masses of objects! Use this lesson independently or alongside *Estimating Measurements of Mass and Volume Using Metric Units.*

Which Unit of Measurement?

In this lesson, your students will use hands-on visuals to learn about fractions! Your students will love using manipulatives to practice placing fractions on a number line.

Dividing Shapes and Lines

What&#39;s more romantic than a bar graph on Valentine&#39;s Day? In this Valentine&#39;s Day lesson plan, students will use information from a data set to create their own tally charts and bar graphs and then analyze these graphs to answer questions.

Math + Love = Valentine's Day Bar Graph

A hands-on approach makes geometry fun! Use this lesson to teach your students about the basics of perimeter with geoboards. 

Perimeter with Geoboards

Your class will love this outdoor activity that teaches them how to compare the capacity of different containers.

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