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Design a Building

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students design a blueprint of a building. In this measurement lesson, students design a building on paper. Students copy their building's measurements into the Microsoft Paint program and write word problems about their buildings....
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Weigh in Grams

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this measuring in grams practice worksheet, students examine 8 pictures and identify the items that should be weighed in kilograms.
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Mean, Median, and Mode 1

For Students 8th - 10th
In this mean, median and mode worksheet, students use the measures of central tendency to describe given statistical data. Students identify the range of data, and match data to its representative bar graph. Two multi-step problems are...
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Life Science: Heavy Weight

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate adolescent obesity and its health impact. In this health and obesity instructional activity, students research the problem, develop a survey regarding eating habits, then analyze the nutritional information on...
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Measuring Up on the Mayflower

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use a meter tape to compare the length of the Mayflower to a basketball court and make homemade butter for crackers. Afterward, all students sit inside the makeshift Mayflower's dimensions and enjoy their Pilgrim butter.
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Weight A Minute

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars watch a video and engage in hands-on activities which introduce scientific information made real through re-cognition and understanding the phenomena of gravitational force and how it impacts life on our planet.
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Gravity and Falling Objects

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students watch experiments to define gravity and what gravity's function. In this gravity lesson, students watch video segments about experiments conducted with two objects to see what gravity does with different masses.  
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"Mummies--The Great Cover Up"

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers wrap their mummy, use canopic-style jars for the preserved chicken organs and design and decorate a sarcophagus. They collect data by weighing, measuring and graphing their "mummy" and its organs.
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Graphing Weights and Measures

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars practice gathering, averaging, and graphing data. They practice converting measurements to the metric system. Students graph their results and present them to the class.
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Black Bayou Lake Measures Up

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students, in groups, estimate measurments and then select the tools needed and measure various items at Black Bayou Lake refuge.
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Measuring

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students convert basic measurement in English and Metric Units.
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Weights and Measures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students master the gathering, averaging and graphing of data. They practice conversion to metric measures. They gain fluency in the use of technology tools for math operations.
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Wall Weight

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders calculate the weight of a limestone block in metric and U.S. customary measurements. Make inferences by applying measurable ratios to known data.
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Making Fudge: Measuring Weight

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders measure the ingredients for a fudge recipe. In this measurement lesson, 4th graders practice measuring out the ingredients for a recipe to make fudge. Later, students get to enjoy the fudge they made.
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Thrust to Weight Ratio

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners, after reading the Web page Thrust to Weight Ratio, use Range Games and the Air Page to complete the activity to answer questions about turbojet thrust to weight ratio.
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Shake, Rattle and Erode

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students measure how much mass is worn away during 15-20 minutes of shaking. They shake rocks for 15-20 minutes to simulate stream erosion. Students listen to music as they shake their rocks. They weigh out 100 grams of marble chips....
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Matter

For Students 7th - 10th
In this matter worksheet, students unscramble 11 terms associated with the different forms of matter and how matter is measured.
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Work Problems

For Students 9th - 12th
In this work worksheet, students determine how much work or how much force is required to move objects of specific weight a certain distance. This worksheet has 10 problems to solve.
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Measuring the Speed of a Wave

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students create an experiment in which they measure the speed of a wave and record the data in a graph. They work in small groups to write the procedure for the experiment and share it with another group for cross checking of the...
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Heavyweight Champion

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify what mass is and how to measure an object with a balance in gram units. Students identify weight and how to measure with a spring scale in units of force. Students compare the masses of two objects by placing each on...
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Inchworm

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discover the basic concept of measuring.  In this mathematics relationship lesson, students identify length, volume, weight, time and area in order to measure different units.  Students measure items using different...
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Learning to Use the Words Inches, Feet, and Yards

For Teachers Higher Ed
Pupils use a variety of measuring devices including a ruler, yardstick, and tape measure to accurately measure objects in inches, feet, and yards. They report on these measurements, both orally and in writing.
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Wrapped Up In A Kiss!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars use the wrapper of a Hershey's Kiss to practice estimating, predicting and measuring. They measure with centimeter rulers.
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Make a Measurement Maths Trail

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students follow a math trail that has been created by the teacher. They follow the trail and answer math questions at stations along the way. They work in small groups to devise a math trail of their own which they share with another class.