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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Mathline: It Takes Ten Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Students rotate from station to station completing activities involving measurement weight, length, and volume using metric measurement.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Give an Inch, Take a Foot

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice measuring techniques by measuring different objects and distances around the classroom. They practice using different scales of measurement in metric units and estimation. Also, students learn how measurement is used in...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Measure Twice, Cut Once

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars learn the metric units engineers use to measure mass, distance (or length) and volume. They make estimations using these units and compare their guesses with actual values. To introduce the concepts, the teacher needs...
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Food Market: Centimeters and Millimeters

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Mila is comparing fruits at the fruit market. Join her on this adventure!
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Length & Measuring With Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart involves investigating various lengths in Metric and US Customary. Students will work on finding lengths to the sixteenths. The flipchart can be used with Everyday Math, Unit 10.
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Metric Conversions Word Problems

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Practice metric length, volume, and mass problems that require expressing measurements given in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Measurement: Conversions in Metric Units

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert among metric units of measure using powers of 10.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Measurement: Metric System

For Students 6th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Measure length in metric units.
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Metric Units of Length Review

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
Metric units of length (millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers) are reviewed and practice problems are provided.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Estimating Length (Mm, Cm, M, Km)

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Practice estimating the length of real life objects using metric units. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Activity
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Measuring Metrically With Maggie

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Metric units for volume, mass, length and temperature are explained to a cute little alien called Maggie. There are lots of real life examples for comparison that younger children will understand.
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Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Measurement: Metric Conversions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson plan has a game to help students convert to various linear metric units and learn their abbreviations.
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Graphic
Math2

Math2.org: Weights and Measures

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides information on weights and measures, including unit conversion tables.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Robot Wheels!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students solidify their understanding of the terms "circumference" and "rotation" through the use of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotics components. They measure the circumference of robot wheels to determine how far the robot can travel during...
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Interactive
Fun Brain

Fun Brain: Measure It! (Measuring Lengths Game)

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Practice using metric rulers and rulers with inches. Includes helpful feedback when questions are answered incorrectly.
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Website
Other

World Wide Metric Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Do you need a quick conversion from metric units to imperial units or just the reverse? Use this resource for conversions of length, weight, pressure, and volume.
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Metric Olympic Games (Intermediate)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This activity can be used to introduce the metric system to students.
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Handout
The Math League

The Math League: Metric Units and Measurement

For Students 3rd - 8th
This metric system tutorial is compared to the U.S. standard system so that students can comprehend the measurement of length, volume, mass and the like.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Pbs Mathline: It Takes Ten (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A metric measurement lesson plan using grams, milliliters, and centimeters. This lesson plan offers a variety of "hands on" measurement activities using both the customary and metric systems. Additionally, this lesson plan offers...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Design Your Own Bedroom

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Many students dream of designing their ideal bedroom. In this exercise, students will be required to limit their designs by size (as a specific volume) and price (a specific amount). They must design the floor plan, including furniture...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Dead Men's Tales: Inferring Height From Bone Length

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Explore the work of forensic scientists by inferring an individual's height from the length of certain long bones. Create bone/height relation charts and measure length using metric units. This activity was created to be used with the...
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Metrics in the Home and in the Store

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan site, young scholars will compare SI unit (metric) measurements of common household items and their English equivalents.
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Handout
The Math League

The Math League: Decimals in Measurement

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This site gives information on the metric system, as well as abbreviations for metric conversion.
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Interactive
Other

Ask Numbers: Measurement Conversion Calculators and Charts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What kind of unit conversion would you like to do? This site will allow you to do a multitude of conversions. Just click on the specific measurement you are needing to convert. It also provides a history of measurements and a chart of...