Measurement Lessons

A Year Apart - In this activity, children will show their knowledge of the order of the months of the year by assembling a puzzle using visual clues about the months.".	Fill It Up - In this activity , children use empty containers to explore comparisons, measurement, estimation, and geometry.
Find It! - In this activity, children need to locate an object in the classroom or in their desk that is about the same length as the number of cubes shown, then trace or draw the object in the space provided.	Giant Steps - This particular activity was designed to provide students with an opportunity to utilize their knowledge of measurement in making accurate measurements and estimations, as well as to provide practice in making graphs.
Hold It! - In this activity, children will use beans to estimate capacity and become familiar with making a reasonable guess instead of a "wild" guess.	Measurement - In this Measurement Activity, you and your class will see a Web site that shows outdoor play sets with ladders, swing sets, and towers. The activity reinforces measurement comparisons of taller and shorter.
Making Estimations in Measurement - After listening to the story Jack and the Beanstalk, students estimate their own height, circumference, and length of foot. Then, they work with a partner to measure themselves	Making Ice Cream - Students make homemade ice cream by converting a metric recipe into English units of measure
Remembering Units - Activity ideas for teaching about gallons, quarts, pints, and cups. Students can construct a Mr. Gallon	Sandy Measurement - A lesson plan with reproducibles about standard and non-standard units of measurement
Inch by Inch - Provides the opportunity to develop, though creative measuring activities, a visual referent to aid in the understanding of the concept of an inch. Incorporates the children's book entitled: "Inch by Inch" by Leo Lionni, Scholastic Book Services, 1960.	Let's Measure!
Shark Math - A printable worksheet that directs students to measure pictures of sharks using a people ruler	The Metric System - A printable crostic puzzle about the Metric system of measurement
Measuring Matter	How Many "Yous" Does It Take??? - Students use non-standard units to measure various things in the classroom
Piglets - The activity strengthens children's understanding of weight and length, as well as reinforcing the differences between units of measurement.	Kites - In this Kites Activity you and your class will see photographs of beautiful kites. Children will practice estimating and comparing measurements of some of these kites, using yards, feet, and inches.
Area and Volume	Making Estimations in Measurement
Smile Metric Style	Measuring Up - Details a math puzzle challenge review or enrichment game used to reinforce vocabulary as one letter in each word is changed to form another math vocabulary word relating to measurement
Museum Shopping	Metric Units and Measurement
Converting Units and the SR-71	Interplanetary Distance and Travel Time
Measurement and Frogs - This measurement activity incorporates the concept of mean, median, and range using the Statistics Workshop. The simulated activity is found in the April, 1990 issue of the Arithmetic Teacher. Extensions enable the activity to be carried over to the computer.	Measuring Plant Growth
Metric Conversions - Provides practice in converting one unit of metric length to another through a board game. In addition provides practice in the interpretation of abbreviations.	Tree Measurement
Area and Volume	Area Formula Lab - Lesson plans with reproducible activities for applying formulas to measuring the area of polygons

Measurement - In this Measurement Activity, you and your class will see a Web site that shows outdoor play sets with ladders, swing sets, and towers. The activity reinforces measurement comparisons of taller and shorter.