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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: Max's Measuring Mania

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Read about how Max and Ruthie measured some fun objects in their gym. Use this method to measure things in your classroom. A helpful teacher's guide and extra challenges will make this a fun lesson on measuring with nonstandard units.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: On Track Unit Conversion

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students use three tracks marked on the floor, one in yards, one in feet and one in inches. As they start and stop a robot specific distances on a "runway," they can easily determine the equivalent measurements in other units by looking...
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Unit Plan
University of Nebraska

University of Nebraska: Unit Vectors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this resource unit vectors are defined and examples are given here. Notation is discussed also.
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Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: A Tour of Measurement

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Peruse a collection of lesson plans, resources and FAQ's about measurement at every grade level.
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Interactive
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Place Value Game

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This interactive math game lets you create the largest number possible as the computer gives you numbers.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Storytelling in the Social Studies Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
People make the past come alive as students research and then share stories about famous Americans who promoted democratic ideals.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: When I Was Young In, a Literature to Language Experience

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Past meets present in this instructional activity in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: I Wonder: Writing Scientific Explanations With Students

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students choose a question to explore, research it using a variety of resources, organize their information on a TCF chart, and then collaboratively write a class scientific explanation.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Weaving the Multigenre Web

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students analyze the elements of a novel in many different genres and then hyperlink these pieces together on student-constructed Websites.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Dividing to Find the Unit Price

For Students 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice using division to find the unit price.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Units of Energy: Calorie and Joule

For Students 9th - 10th
A narrated screencast which discusses various units used to measure energy: calorie, kilocalorie, and joule. [2:22]
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Handout
Other

All math.com: Us/metric Conversion Tables

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Convert metric measurements to U.S. Measurements and the reverse, too. Easy to follow tables have sections for area, length, mass,temperature and volume.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Questions about weather clear up when students use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Comprehension Strategies With Elie Wiesel's Night

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Working in small groups, young scholars read and discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir Night and then take turns assuming the "teacher" role, as the class works with four different comprehension strategies.RI.11-12.4 Word meaning, RI.11-12.10b...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Reading/writing About Whales Using Fiction and Nonfiction Texts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will have a whale of a good time in this lesson in which they use fiction and nonfiction texts to write a letter to an online scientist.
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Unit Plan
Lawrence Hall of Science

The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Power of Ten

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
This website from The Math Page explains and defines basic arithmetic terms and place value concepts. There is even a practice section at the very end of the lesson.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Fraction Counting

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders develop their understanding of fractions through counting unit fractions on a number line.
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Professional Doc
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Place Value, Counting, and Comparison of Numbers to 1000

For Students 2nd Standards
A guide to support parents as they work with their students in place value, counting, and comparison of numbers to 1000.
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Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: The Unit Circle

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Relates the unit circle to the method for finding trig ratios in any of the four quadrants. Demonstrates how the unit circle might be useful.
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Interactive
ICT Games

Ict Games: Shark Numbers Place Value

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Tell the place value of the tens and ones. Click on the correct number floating at the bottom of the screen.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Introduction to Units & Standards: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson should help a learner understand why we use units and how they are governed by standards. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Introduction to Units & Standards."
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Introduction to Units & Standards: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson should help a learner understand why we use units and how they are governed by standards. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Introduction to Units & Standards."
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Place Value Introduction

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart uses storytelling to appeal to the imagination of the child. It serves as an introduction to further exploration in numeration.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Unit Rates

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches students what a unit rate is and how to find a unit rate from real-world situations. Activote assessment is included.