Curated OER
Mighty Oaks from Little Acorns
What does it mean to grow? To germinate? For the plan detailed here, class members investigate the growth process of an oak tree while focusing on the beginning stages of planting and germination. They plant seeds and record observations...
Curated OER
Garden Grid
Basically, your class reads about different garden plants from an included handout and seed packets that you provide, and then uses a grid to plan out where to place the plants. They can practice counting with the seeds, grouping,...
Curated OER
Agriculture in Motion
Youngsters learn about simple machines that could be used on a farm. They learn about agricluture, listen to a farmer speak, compare and contrast different farm machines, and then design their own. Note that although the publisher...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Seeds: How They Grow
Students observe the growing stages of plants. In this plant growth instructional activity, students collect, germinate, and plant seeds to chart the growth process of plants.
Curated OER
Mighty Earth Movers
Note that although the publisher lists almost all of the Common Core standards for both math and language arts, you will most likely want to take the general topic and choose which area to focus on. Regarding math, pupils measure worms...
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PBS
Pbs Mathline: Sand Babies Lesson Plan [Pdf]
Students will explore weight by using sand to represent their birth weight and use their length at birth to explore measuring length. Printable lesson
Teachnology
Teachnology: Measurement Teaching Theme
Measurement Teaching Theme provides an excellent collection of free sample worksheets, teacher resources, lesson plans and interactive media for the elementary grades.
Other
Visnos: Interactive Clock
Determine the time, degree of angles, and fractions, using this interactive white board clock activity.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Order Length
The long and the short of it..... In this introductory lesson to ordering lengths, young scholars will be able to compare objects by length using the vocabulary longest and shortest. The lesson is introduced using the book "The Dog Show"...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fitness Dice: Lesson Plan
Read the die to find out what exercise to do and how many repetitions are needed, keep a running tally of rolls to see who gets the highest score.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Fashion Store: Mass & Capacity
Penny the Penguin owns a fashion store. Let's find out what people wear at Antarctica. Uses popups.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Measures
A huge collection of teacher resources to aide in the teaching of all types of metric measurement: length, distance, mass, weight, capacity, and volume. Activities include measuring, estimating, converting, investigating, and finding...
University of Texas at Austin
Mathematics Teks Toolkit: What's Poppin
Compare weights and volumes using popped and unpopped popcorn.
SRI International
Performance Assessment Links in Science: Measurement: Using the Balance (Lesson)
This performance task assesses students' ability to use a balance and to measure the mass of objects accurately.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: What Is a Measure?
In this instructional activity, Rolf Myller's book entitled How Big is a Foot? is used as a mentor text. Students will answer the question, "What does it mean to be big?"The mathematical concepts of area, attributes, and fractions are...
Mr. Martini's Classroom
Mr. Martini's Classroom: What Time Is It?
Practice telling time using a multiple choice assessment.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 1.g 3 D Shape Sort
As a whole group, students will sort a collection of three-dimensional objects into categories by shape. There should be several that fall into each of the categories below: Aligns with 1.G.A.1.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Can You Do It Too?
Can you throw a beanbag as far as the Olympic hammer or discus throwers? This activity introduces children to informal measures to compare distances, and is designed to be accessible to primary pupils at Key Stage 1.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Jumping
After training hard, Ben and Mia have improved their performance in the long jump and high jump. Can you work out the length and height of their original jumps? This activity explores multiplication, division and fractions in the context...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Now and Then
Look at the changes in results on some of the athletics track events at the Olympic Games in 1908 and 1948. What will the results be in 2012? This slightly more challenging activity encourages children to examine data and consider...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Order by Length
In this exercise, students practice ordering objects by length. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Order by Length
Practice ordering 3 objects by length. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Shadows
Can you judge an object by its shadow? Use your mental rotation skills to determine if a shadow can be produced by a particular shape.