[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems involving units of capacity.

Students will be using a hands-on approach to learning about length, capacity, and weight. This lesson contains a detailed plan, slides containing notes and problems, and a video tutorial.

Through interactive exercises and illustrated example problems, students learn about specific heat capacity and measuring the quantity of heat.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes how to visually compare the capacity of three different containers.

Use this activity to teach students to represent numbers in scientific notation, and use geometry to solve problems related to three-dimensional figures. Explore distance and capacity problems about planets in the solar system. The...

This interactive focuses on measuring objects using coins as units of measurement. They measure tools, trains, mice, and shoes.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems on how to compare cups and quarts.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems on comparing quarts and pints.

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.

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...

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

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...

Learn how to enlarge drawings, figure out how much tile to buy to cover a specific floor, and learn about area and perimeter. These and other lesson plans are provided, including a fun interdisciplinary plan featuring dragons.

A guide to support parents as they work with their students in place value and problem solving with units of measure.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The teacher will use this lesson plan flipchart to review length, mass and capacity.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Choose appropriate tools and customary units for given measurement situations.

As an analytical chemist at a company developing new engine coolants your task is to determine the heat capacity of a newly developed product and then to determine if its heat capacity is greater of less than that of ethylene glycol.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video demonstrates how to convert multiple units to the smallest unit of measurement in order to add and write the solution as a compound unit. Practice problems...

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...

In this video from Cyberchase, Bianca is babysitting infant twins. As she tries to give each twin the same amount of liquid baby formula, she discovers that all the baby bottles are different shapes. Learn how she finds two that hold the...

This instructional activity is a hands-on, cross-curricular instructional activity for exploring non-standard measurement. It utilizes children's literature, manipulatives, opportunities for writing, and small group collaborative...

This lesson offers an interesting, hands-on experience for middle school students studying cylinders. Students will create cylinders, and measure and compare their volumes.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart has good beginning activities for introducing measuring with an inch ruler.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert metric units of measurement.