Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Practice: Measure Lengths 1
Measure objects with same-size length units without gaps or overlaps. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Let's Measure
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use this flip chart to measure to the nearest eighth of an inch. The ruler has been enlarged to focus on the half, fourth, eighth, and sixteenth increments.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Rice Field: Seasons and Measurement
Students will practice ordering, measuring, and labeling non-standard units of measure.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nonstandard Measurement
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students review nonstandard measurement from first grade and volume from second grade math SOLS. Virginia assessment material is used for Activote opportunity.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Mad About Measuring
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart has good beginning activities for introducing measuring with an inch ruler.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Growing and Graphing
Students visit a 2nd and a 4th grade class to measure the heights of older students using large building blocks as a non-standard unit of measure. They can also measure adults in the school community. Results are displayed in...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Souper Scooper
This hands-on, inquiry based activity is an extension of the AMSTI Science Module, Solids and Liquids. Learners use nonstandard units to measure beans in a soup mix. Students predict how many beans will be in a scoop. Learners group...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: No More Peas, Please!
In this activity, students explore the use of nonstandard units of volume and calculators to estimate the number of peas it would take to fill a class room.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Fishy Tales
Students tell how long an object is by measuring it using paper clips and comparing it to other objects measured with the same non-standard unit of measurement.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Extra Practice Quiz Nonstandard Units 1
Practice using a variety of nonstandard units to measure the length of various objects. Read the interactive quiz rules and then click on the "Begin" ticket. If you answer incorrectly you get one more chance to try again then you are...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: How Tall Are We?
Kindergartners measure each other's height using large building blocks, then visit a 2nd and a 4th grade class to measure those students. They can also measure adults in the school community. Results are displayed in age-appropriate bar...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Measurement
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students guess the length of objects then check for accuracy using standard and nonstandard measuring devices.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Hand Span
Use this one page website to practice measuring things using nonstandard units of measurement. There is a solutions page that is right at the website for more information.
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Spring Scale Engineering
Students learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, and test a spring scale using everyday items that can measure the weight of an apple. The objective of the lesson is to explore how scales work and to learn about...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: What's the Plan?
In this activity, students investigate area with nonstandard and standard units of measure. They work to plan a unique vegetable garden and calculate the costs of plants for the garden.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Addition and Subtraction of Length Units
A guide to support parents as they work with their students addition and subtraction of length units.
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