PBS
Pbs Mathline: It Takes Ten Lesson Plan [Pdf]
Students rotate from station to station completing activities involving measurement weight, length, and volume using metric measurement.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Give an Inch, Take a Foot
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Measure Twice, Cut Once
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...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Food Market: Centimeters and Millimeters
Mila is comparing fruits at the fruit market. Join her on this adventure!
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Length & Measuring With Fractions
[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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Metric Conversions Word Problems
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...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Conversions in Metric Units
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert among metric units of measure using powers of 10.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Metric System
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Measure length in metric units.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Metric Units of Length Review
Metric units of length (millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers) are reviewed and practice problems are provided.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Estimating Length (Mm, Cm, M, Km)
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.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Measuring Metrically With Maggie
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.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Measurement: Metric Conversions
This lesson plan has a game to help students convert to various linear metric units and learn their abbreviations.
Math2
Math2.org: Weights and Measures
This resource provides information on weights and measures, including unit conversion tables.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Robot Wheels!
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...
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Measure It! (Measuring Lengths Game)
Practice using metric rulers and rulers with inches. Includes helpful feedback when questions are answered incorrectly.
Other
World Wide Metric Calculator
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.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Metric Olympic Games (Intermediate)
This activity can be used to introduce the metric system to students.
The Math League
The Math League: Metric Units and Measurement
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.
Other
Pbs Mathline: It Takes Ten (Pdf) [Pdf]
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...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Design Your Own Bedroom
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...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Dead Men's Tales: Inferring Height From Bone Length
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...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Metrics in the Home and in the Store
In this lesson plan site, young scholars will compare SI unit (metric) measurements of common household items and their English equivalents.
The Math League
The Math League: Decimals in Measurement
This site gives information on the metric system, as well as abbreviations for metric conversion.
Other
Ask Numbers: Measurement Conversion Calculators and Charts
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...