A comprehensive guide for learning all about measuring length with definitions, understanding different units to measure length, how to compare length, solved examples, and practice questions.

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

The Center for Mathematics and Science Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides an interesting and easy-to-use dictionary of the history and meaning of many measurement terms. Metric, International, and...

At the completion of this lesson, 3rd graders will understand how to compare the lengths of various objects. This lesson plan has detailed instructions that include pictures and videos.

First Graders need to use direct and indirect comparisons to measure objects. Today they will use their new knowledge of dinosaurs to find the longest of the giant lizards.

The following unit can be used to teach measurable attributes. Students will describe and compare two objects with a measurable concept in common using direct comparison. Included are necessary vocabulary, a scavenger hunt, and links to...

This site contains an extensive list of various units of measurement known internationally and across several disciplines. Unit symbols are also included.

Recall that a portion of a circle is called an arc. One way to measure an arc is with degrees.

Students rotate from station to station completing activities involving measurement weight, length, and volume using metric measurement.

Practice your estimation skills by comparing the number of objects shown, the length of a curve or the area of a shape to a given number. Your choices are "greater than" or "less than".

Blossom and Snappy redecorate the messy garage which involves measuring lengths and calculating area. They learn some ideas on redecoration by visiting a furniture store, a neon company, and an art supply store. They turn junk into...

Kids need multiple experiences to practice what they've learned. This lesson plan is one in a series about measuring and ordering objects.

A satellite is orbiting the Earth at a given height and students are asked to find the distance it travels to complete 70 percent of an orbit. This task provides a context for connecting an angle in radians to the arc length intercepted...

Sixth graders will be using a hands-on approach to learning about length, capacity and weight.

For this chapter, you will access Global Positioning System (GPS) data from the Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) and analyze the data in a spreadsheet to measure the motion of GPS stations in the Pacific Northwest. From your analyses,...

This resource explains the structure of the metric system of measurement; the basic units of measurement for length, volume, and mass; and provides charts for each type of measurement. A chart of customary US units is also given.

Picture a roll of toilet paper; assume that the paper in the roll is very tightly rolled. Assuming that the paper in the roll is very thin, find a relationship between the thickness of the paper, the inner and outer radii of the roll,...

Some friends are at the beach looking out onto the ocean on a clear day and they wonder how far away the horizon is. A second problem asks how far the horizon would be from the top of a mountain. Students must also answer a question...

In this lesson plan students will grow a bean plant and record the length as the plant grows.

This activity allows the user to practice estimation skills by determining if a given amount is more or less than the number of objects shown, the length of a curve, or the area of a shape. An interactive activity and teacher resources...

This activity allows the user to compare to quantities by estimating. Students use three types of estimations: counting, length, and area. An interactive activity and teacher resources are included.

This activity allows the user to practice estimation skills. Students use three types of estimations: counting, length, and area. An interactive activity and teacher resources are included.

Here's a project where you can try your hand at being a detective with your computer. In this project you'll write a program to do some basic analysis of features of written text (for example, counting the length of each word in the...

Documentary on the search for crocodiles measuring twenty feet or more in length, and the challenges to survival they face, e.g., from hunters. The reasons for their survival from dinosaur times are also examined.