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| What Do These Marks Mean?: | Students are asked to explain what the marks on a ruler represent and how to use a ruler to measure length. |
| Measuring Michael’s Toy Car - 2: | Students are asked to consider the zero point (origin) and end point when measuring the length of objects to the nearest inch. |
| Measuring Michael’s Toy Car - 1: | Students are asked to explain a method for measuring length and to identify an appropriate tool. |
| What’s The Length of the Third Set?: | Students compare the lengths of two cube trains indirectly by using a third cube train. |
| The Missing Pencil: | Students are asked to indirectly compare the lengths of three pencils based on the known lengths of two of the pencils. |
| Longest to Shortest Cubes: | Students put three trains (sets of joined cubes) in order from longest to shortest. |
| Line Lengths: | Students are asked determine which line is longer using cubes, string, a pencil, a ruler, or another measuring strategy. |
| Comparing Widths and Heights of Books: | Students are asked to place three books in order from least to greatest bottom edge length and least to greatest side edge length. |
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| Inch by Inch: | In this lesson students will be able to recognize the ruler as a tool to measure length, and understand the use of the beginning and end points when measuring the length of an item. Students will need to measure Bubble Tape gum so that everyone is able to have a piece. This lesson addresses part a and b of the standard. |
| Measuring with Inches: | In this engaging introductory lesson to measuring with a ruler, students will learn that a ruler is a tool to measure in inches. They will be moving around the room to measure classroom objects to gather a concrete idea how to measure with a ruler and that they need to start with zero. |
| Totally Wholly Lengths: | In this lesson students will measure the lengths of various items by placing centimeter- or inch-length manipulatives end-to-end and counting them. |
| Thrice is Nice?: | In this lesson, students will directly compare and order the length of three flowers and discuss the comparisons using comparison language. |
| What is in the Size of a Foot?: | This lesson will allow students to compare and order the length of objects by using an item close to them... their feet! They will explore the length of their feet compared to the lengths of the feet of others in their groups. Students will then make statements to describe the comparison of the length of their feet, and other objects, using comparison language such as shorter, shortest, longer, and longest. |
| Beach Measurements: | The students will read about children playing at the beach. These children want to know how tall their sand castle is and use some very creative ways to find the height. Students will follow the same idea and have the opportunity to use beach equipment to do the same. A fun and engaging lesson on non-standard measurement. |
| How Does Your Garden Grow?: | In this lesson, students will help create an interactive bulletin board by measuring the height of a paper flower using connecting cubes and then directly comparing the height of their flower to the height of two others. Then students will "plant" their flowers in flowerpots on the bulletin board in order from shortest to tallest, so that other class gardeners will have the chance to see how they “grow”! |
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| Arctic Paradise Measurement: | In this activity, students use hands-on manipulatives to find the length and height of different arctic pictures using a nonstandard measurement unit: snowflakes. Students then use their data and order objects by length and height. |
| Rough Rubbin' Sharks-SeaWorld Classroom Activity: | In this activity, students gain an understanding of sharks' rough, textured skin through artwork. They demonstrate knowledge of a shark's ecosystem. Students will also have the opportunity to measure/estimate different sharks using objects and rulers. |
| How Big Am I-SeaWorld Classroom Activity: | In this activity, given various tools for measurement, students will be able to measure length. They will compare various units of measurement. |
| How Big is a Blue-SeaWorld Classroom Activity: | In this activity, given pictures of whales, the student will sort the whales by size. Given a rope marked with several whale lengths, the student will compare the lengths of these whales. |
| Measuring with Paperclips: | This site features 20 images that give students practice measuring the height and width of various pictures with paperclips. The site opens as a PDF and the images are ready to print. Each sheet contains a spot for students to write in their measurement of the common objects. |
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