Measurements

Introducing our customizable and interactive hands-on math lab activity: "Measure Up Math Lab!" This is designed for students to explore the measuring to the nearest 1/4 inch in a fun and tailored way.

In "Measure Up Math Lab," students will use a ruler to measure common classroom items and their neighbor's finger and thumb. This lab apart is customizable because it's made in Google Docs, allowing teachers to easily customize the activity by adding their own items to be measured. This flexibility ensures that the lab aligns perfectly with the unique needs of each classroom.

This is a worksheet and practice in collecting data and representing it in bar graph form, and is designed to help students understand the fascinating role of genetics in determining eye color.

In this activity, students will explore the concept of genetics as a special code that influences our physical appearance, including eye color. They will learn that genes act as tiny instructions within our bodies, inherited from our parents at birth. This hands-on activity and reading passage will help students discover the magic behind eye color inheritance.

Dive into the world of volume estimation with this engaging and interactive activity designed for elementary students to explore the concept of estimating and measuring the volume of water. This resource is perfect for teachers looking to add a splash of excitement to their math lessons!

In this activity, you'll set up your classroom with several different-sized graduated cylinders displayed on a table. Surrounding them are 10 containers of various shapes and sizes – cups, sponges, measuring cups, soda mugs, and more.

Here's how the activity unfolds:

Students will measure common objects to the nearest inch and then input them in a table.  Or you can just use the table with common objects.  Once they have the data, they will use a number line divided into quarters and create a line plot.  When finished they will answer some questions based on the line plot.  Answer key is provided.

Students will practice measuring objects to the nearest quarter inch.  They will also analyze line plots.  This is designed to reteach the concept for those students who are struggling.

Students will practice measuring objects with quarter-inch measurements.  They will also practice creating line plots based on measurements and tables.

When my 3rd grade students are learning to read measurements to the quarter inch, I use this game.  Most kids get really into it.  As students get the measurement correct, the timer goes faster and faster.  You can change the settings to display rulers the measure just the inch, half inch, quarter inch, sixteenth inch, thirty-two seconds of an inch and even sixty-four seconds of an inch.

In this video students will learn about volume and capacity.  Students will be shown how to decompose milliliters into liters.  The video talks about how capacity and volume relate.

In this worksheet, students will take everyday objects from the classroom and use balance scales to find the mass.  The students will first describe the object and then estimate the mass.  They will then weigh the object and write down that actual mass.  Finally, they will find the difference between the actual mass and the estimated mass.  Once students are finished they will sort the mass from lightest to heaviest.  The main purpose of this assignment is to have students make estimates and then use actual scales to find the mass.

This NASA video demonstrates how scientists compare distances between the planets and the sun using the measurement system, Astronomical Units.  They do a great job discussing scaling and why we use AU's as the measurement system when talking about our solar system.