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Teaching Measurement Through Science
Use these lesson plans to give your students real world practice with measuring distance, mass, and volume.
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Volumes of Solids
For this volume worksheet, students observe diagrams and extrapolate the correct items to plug into a formula for volume. They find the volume of triangular prisms, cylinders, cones, rectangular prisms, and rectangular pyramids. Four...
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Measuring Lesson Plans and Metric System Conversions
Students may review measurement, and metric system conversions by measuring one another and the world around them.
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How to Use the Burette
For this burette-use worksheet, students are given directions for titration using a burette. They practice reaching the end point of titrations and calculate the mean volume of three trials.
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Observing Sound
Second graders study the five senses and the link between pictures and sound. In this sound lesson students discover that sound is vibration, it is described by volume and pitch.
Illustrative Mathematics
Christo’s Building
Hook your charges on how to solve a real-world art problem with mathematics by showing works of Christo. You can find eye-catching images on the Christo and Jeanne Claude webpage. Here, math learners help Jean Claude and Christo prepare...
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Math Activity File
Third graders describe the difference between area and volume and also explain how various units of measure relate to one another.
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Cross Sections and Collision Times
High schoolers solve five problems including finding the cross sectional area of two bodies, determining the swept out volume of a moving body, finding the average particle volume of a body and determining the collision time for a body.
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Cari's Aquarium
The volume of a fish tank is a rather important measure when it comes to building an aquarium for different species of fish. In this problem, your kids look at how many different ways they can make a fish tank of a specific volume,...
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Density - An Intrinsic Property
Learners discover the property of density while participating in a lab exercise. In this scientific measuring lesson, pupils utilize a scale to measure the density of different metal materials. They document their work and present their...
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What is DBH?
When measuring the circumference of a tree, does it matter how high you place the measuring tape? Most scholars have never considered this question, but scientists know that measurement techniques must be standardized. The 13th...
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Measuring Lung Volume and Capacity
In this measuring lung volume and capacity instructional activity, students perform several experiments testing for exhaled carbon dioxide, measuring lung volume, and measuring lung capacity.
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Metric Units of Volume
In this metric units of volume activity, learners read about meters, milliliters, and deciliters prior to responding to 2 multi-step metric problems.
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Estimating Volume: Post Test
In this estimating volume learning exercise, students complete a set of 10 multiple choice questions, clicking on an answer link to view correct answers. Page is labeled as a "post test."
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Twenty-Five Measures of the Angles of a Triangle Problems
In this triangle worksheet, learners calculate the measures of the angles or the sums of the measures of the angles in twenty-five triangle problems and hands-on activities. The solutions are provided.
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Beyahh!!!!!!! Measurement Word Search Puzzle
In this measurement word search puzzle worksheet, students locate 10 words that are included in a word bank at the bottom of the page. They find words such as length, weight, volume, and weight.
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Area and volume, Prisms and Pyramids
In this geometry worksheet, students solve for the volume and area of given polygons. They find the surface area and identify the different parts of the polygon. There are 10 questions.
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Measure Me!
Third graders use nonstandard concrete methods to estimate and record measurements of their body.
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"Space" Exploration
Fourth graders identify the attribute of volume of an object. Units of measurement are reviewed and utilized in this lesson.
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Box It Up
Fifth graders make boxes. For this prisms lesson, 5th graders read the book Counting on Frank and discuss the different things that the boy measures. Students make boxes of various sizes using graph paper and find their volume.
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Who Wants to Carry a Million?
Learners, in groups, determine the volume of a box large enough to hold a million dollars. They calculate the dimensions of a bill and the volume of the money.
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Candy Land
For this activity students pretend that they have been hired by a candy manufacturer to design a box for a new product they are beginning to market. The manufacturer has pre-determined the volume of the candy box. It is the students' job...
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Combined Gas Law Problems
In this chemistry learning exercise, students use the combined gas law to complete 9 short answer questions in which they calculate new volumes, .original pressures, and change in temperatures.
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Combined Gas Law Problems
In this gases activity, students use the combined gas law to solve nine problems for the unknown variable at the new temperature, pressure or volume.