Curated OER
Go The Distance Car Construction
Students build and program a car to drive a specific challenge distance.They must at the end of the lesson, have the car that stops the closest to a challenge distance.
Curated OER
Travel Time and Distance - Fractional Metric Units 2
For this travel time and distance worksheet, learners complete travel time and distance word problems containing one and two-digit numbers. They complete five problems.
Curated OER
Travel Time and Distance - Imperial Units 2
Learners complete travel time and distance word problems containing one and two digit numbers. They complete five problems.
Curated OER
Travel Time and Distance - Imperial Units 1
For this travel time and distance activity, upper graders complete travel time and distance word problems containing one and two-digit numbers. They complete five problems.
Curated OER
Travel Time and Distance - Fractional Metrics Units 1
Pupils complete travel time and distance word problems containing one and two digit numbers. They complete five problems.
Curated OER
Distance Formula with Decimals 1
In this distance formula worksheet, students complete the distance formula with numbers with decimals. Students complete 16 problems total.
Curated OER
Travel Time and Distance - Metric Units 1
Elementary schoolers complete a set of five word problems using time and distance measurements.
Curated OER
Use Google Maps to Teach Math
Capture the engagement of young mathematicians with this upper-elementary math lesson on measuring time and distance. Using Google Maps, students first measure and compare the distance and time it takes to travel between different...
Curated OER
Understanding Distance, Speed, and Time Relationships
Students investigate distance, speed, and time relationships. In this distance, speed, and time relationships lesson, students simulate a runner using a computer program. Students adjust the starting point and speed of the runner and...
Curated OER
Intercepting Villans Using the Correct Rate
A Cyberchase video introduces the distance = rate x time equation. Participants then calculate answers to proposed problems and graph a series of results that is then incorporated into a game to help cement the concept. A thorough and...
Curated OER
How Far Is It?
Students use a map key to estimate the distance from Salt Lake City, Utah, to ten other cities. Then they use an online distance calculator to see how close their estimates come!
Curated OER
Speed Challenge
In this science instructional activity, students create a race track and mark each distance as stated. Then they perform each task and record the time it takes them for each. Students also record their data from the experiment into the...
Curated OER
Exploring Scale And Ratio
Students measure the actual size and distance of the solar system using scale and ratio. They watch and discuss a video, create a distance-scale solar system model, and compare the scale sizes of planets to their actual sizes.
Curated OER
Simplify Ratio: Word Problems
Use this story problems about ratio activity to have learners read word problems with given ratios and find the designated numbers or distances. They solve four problems.
Curated OER
Speed Problems
Return to the classic word problem with these speed scenarios. Learners use some combination of the variables speed, distance, and speed to solve six problems, all of which ask for one of these as an answer. The examples do a nice job of...
Curated OER
Speed Problems
Challenge your fourth graders with these tricky word problems about speed. They use the formula for time, distance, and speed to solve six scenarios. There are three examples, each showing an instance when a different variable must be...
Curated OER
Measurement and Algebraic Thinking
Comparatively speaking, does a bug travel farther than a human in 10 seconds? Get a bug and measure how far it travels in 10 seconds. Have a human team member run for 10 seconds and calculate the distance ran. Answer the question,"Who...
Curated OER
Frisbee Baseball
Students keep track of the number of tosses it takes them to reach each base, and encourage team members and recognize their successes. To make this activity fit the level of older classes, measure distances and figure averages as you play!
Curated OER
Estimating Distance and Time
Students analyze a Cyberchase video to help them understand how to estimate the time it takes to travel distances. In this time lesson, students use ratiosand repeated addition to calculate how much air the characters in the video need...
California Academy of Science
Modeling Eclipses with Size and Distance Scales
Size within the solar system is a difficult thing for pupils to imagine. Using everyday objects, they build models to show the scale between the sun, moon, and Earth. They situate their props in proportional distances between the objects...
Curated OER
Estimate Distances on a Map
In this estimation worksheet, students estimate the distance on a city map based on the scale given to them. Students answer 4 short answer questions.
Curated OER
Measure Twice, Cut Once
Elementary schoolers learn about metric units and how they are used by engineers. They learn how engineers use the units to measure mass, distance, and volume. Then, they estimate measurements of units, and compare them to actual...
Curated OER
Pacing a Gunther Chain
Students pace a Gunther Chain, a measurement used by foresters to determine distance and area. They discuss that pacing is individualized depending on age, gender, etc. They practice to find an average pace. Teams estimate, pace and...
Curated OER
Create a Math Road Trip
Students create a Road Trip. They work in small groups. Students are given a road map for each group. They plan a road trip between two cities on opposite edges of the map, estimating a reasonable distance to travel each day. Students...
Other popular searches
- Astronomical Distances
- Distances in Space
- Distances in Decimals
- Planetary Distances
- Measuring Distances
- Approximate Distances
- Mapping Distances
- Coordinate System Distances
- Distances. Models
- Scale Distances
- Estimating Distances
- Approximate Distances, Map