PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Animal Measurement Activity Plan
Animal Fun is here! In this week's adventure, Animal Measurement, children will explore measurement with the help of hermit crabs (investigating size correspondence by matching a hermit crab to its appropriate shell), beavers (visual...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: Max's Measuring Mania
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.
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Curious George Stem: Measure Up Lesson Plan
A lesson plan for students to practice measurements with different sized items using both standard and nonstandard units.
Starfall
Starfall: Measurement
This interactive focuses on measuring objects using coins as units of measurement. They measure tools, trains, mice, and shoes.
University of Texas at Austin
Mathematics Teks Toolkit: Measuring Real Stuff
Nonstandard units of measure are used to compare lengths and weights of real-world objects.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Measuring Lengths With Different Units
In this lesson, students units use different units to measure the same object.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Hop on Pop and Non Standard Measurement
This instructional activity is a hands-on, cross-curricular instructional activity for exploring non-standard measurement. It utilizes children's literature, manipulatives, opportunities for writing, and small group collaborative...
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.
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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Mad About Measuring
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart has good beginning activities for introducing measuring with an inch ruler.
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.
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...
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...
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Measurement
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students guess the length of objects then check for accuracy using standard and nonstandard measuring devices.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Souper Scooper
This hands-on, inquiry based lesson is an extension of the AMSTI Science Module, Solids and Liquids. Students use nonstandard units to measure beans in a soup mix. Students predict how many beans will be in a scoop. Students group beans...
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.
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Spring Scale Engineering
Learners 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 activity is to explore how scales work and to learn...
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.
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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