Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: How Do You Measure Up? (With the Ti 10)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this activity, students measure weight, height, and length with the help of a balance, scales, rulers, yardstick, and tape measures. They use their TI-10 to find proportions and to round off answers to whole numbers.
Interactive
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...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: The International System of Units

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students will begin to identify the seven base units of the International System of Units. They will understand the commonly used metric...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Mathline: Sand Babies (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this engaging lesson, students use a variety of measurement strategies in creating their own Sand Babies. Students explore standard and non-standard measurements, area, data collection and analysis, and graphing. Adaptations are...
Graphic
Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Scale Weight of Green Glass

For Students 9th - 10th
A scale weight of green glass is in the form of a circle with a round base. It was used as a standard for measuring different weights.
Graphic
Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Scale Weight

For Students 9th - 10th
The scale weight was used to weigh an amount of approximately 500 grams. It is engraved with the name of "Al-Qasim Ibn 'Ubaid Allah 'Aydi Muslim Ibn Al-'Arraf(Al-qasim Ibn ?aba?d Allah ?aydi Muslim Ibn Al-?araf)" and the date of 117...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Nova: How Big Were They?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use the virtual scale to find out how much the Egyptian Obelisk weighs in elephants. Also, learn other interesting facts about the obelisks.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Putting Robots to Work With Force & Friction

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about the concept of pushing, as well as the relationship between force and mass. Students practice measurement skills using pan scales and rulers to make predictions about mass and distance. A LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot is...
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Force of Friction

For Teachers 6th - 9th
In the first of two lessons of this curricular unit, students are introduced to the concept of friction as a force that impedes motion when two surfaces are in contact. Student teams use spring scales to drag objects, such as a ceramic...