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Curated OER

Rockets on a Shoestring Budgut

For Teachers K - 5th
Students work together to create rockets on a budget. They discover the limitations that real engineers face when designing and testing their products. They discuss their findings to complete the lesson plan.
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BBC

Bbc: Revise Wise: Measures

For Students 3rd - 8th
This teaching site has interactive exercises using different types of measurement. You will measure length, capacity, area, perimeter, time, weight, temperature, and speed.
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Measuring How Much Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Measuring fun is here! In this week's adventure, children will explore volume, capacity, and weight and learn new math vocabulary words as they practice measurement with real and virtual measuring tools. Each section of this weeklong...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Weight and Capacity Customary System

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of weight and capacity in the Customary System. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page...
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US Department of Education

Helping Your Child Learn Math: Math at the Grocery Store

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Make grocery shopping a mathematical experience. Parents and children explore a variety of math concepts through this collection of engaging math activities. Lesson are presented in varying levels of difficulty, offer "Parent Pointers"...
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Game Do You Measure Up?

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This interactive game gives you a variety of measuring tools and measuring opportunity. For this game of chance you choose the correct tool for the job that needs to be measured. Everything you need for this game is listed and/or...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Math: Measurement Glossary and Terms

For Students 3rd - 8th
Math glossary and terms on measurement for kids. Learn the definitions used in this mathematics topic for terms such as unit, width, and weight.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Light Weights

For Students 10th - 12th
Could the location of the Olympic host city have an effect on weightlifting events? This activity provides an interesting context in which to engage with weight, mass and gravitation, and is aimed at A-level students (grades 10, 11, and...
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PBS

Nova Online: How Many Pearls? A Weight & Volume Game

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This interactive game has students apply skills in estimation, measurement, and basic addition using pearls. Students are asked to estimate the number of pearls in a treasure chest by making predictions and using number sense. The skills...
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Weight or Mass?

For Students 6th - 8th
Students learn the difference between weight and mass. Practice problems are included to check for comprehension of the concept.
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Apparent Weight

For Students 3rd - 5th
Apparent weight is explored in this tutorial. Definitions and examples are provided.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Comparison of Length, Weight, Capacity, and Numbers to 10

For Students K Standards
A guide to support parents as they work with their students in comparison of length, weight, capacity, and numbers to 10.
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PBS

Pbs: Real Life Math: Restaurant Manager

For Students 3rd - 5th
Restaurant manager Tad Peelen explains how he uses math in his work in this video from KAET. In the accompanying classroom activity, students complete an activity involving one aspect of math that Mr. Peleen mentions: determining...
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Primary Resources

Primary Resources: Measures

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A huge collection of teacher resources to aide in the teaching of all types of metric measurement: length, distance, mass, weight, capacity, and volume. Activities include measuring, estimating, converting, investigating, and finding...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Weight vs. Capacity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson will introduce students to measuring weight, mass, volume, and capacity using metric and cutomary units. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Activity: Discover Mass (Weight)

For Students 3rd - 5th
The learning activity explores weight. Students weight different items and compare their mass from smallest to largest.
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Other

Math4 Texas: Comparing Measurable Attributes

For Students K - 1st Standards
Students will use their knowledge of measurable attributes (length, weight, capacity) to compare two or more objects using one measurable trait or more than two measurable traits to compare if the objects have more, less, or equal...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Market Place: Mass

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
On this interactive site students learn to use various units of mass to solve problems and put objects in order by their mass.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Fisher Boat: Time & Mass: Months, Seasons and Mass

For Students K - 1st
Lars in Antarctica needs help. Can you help him with all the months of the year and with mass?
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Metric Conversions and Rates

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Find out all about measurement in this test prep lesson exploring English and metric measurement. Students can compare metric and customary measurements using the conversion charts, assess how much they have learned using the interactive...
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Math: Weights and Measures

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using 31 vocabulary words pertaining to Math: Weights and Measures. It also provides an extensive vocabulary word list for this topic.
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Other

Conversions for Weight Measurements

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site allows you to convert weight/mass measurements. For example converting tons to grams. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.A.2 Measure and estimate liquid volumes and masses of objects using standard units
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Quia

Quia: Customary Measurement Flashcards

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This tutorial-practice has students find customary measurement equivalents using a flash card format.
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Other

Ask Numbers: Measurement Conversion Calculators and Charts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What kind of unit conversion would you like to do? This site will allow you to do a multitude of conversions. Just click on the specific measurement you are needing to convert. It also provides a history of measurements and a chart of...