Students learn about and use a right triangle to determine the width of a "pretend" river. Working in teams, they estimate of the width of the river, measure it and compare their results with classmates.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fourth graders an overview of metric capacity operations.

The fifth episode covers the basics of unemployment—how it is defined, how it is measured, and how it is categorized into three types. A "gameshow" quiz winds up the nine-minute lesson.

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine how to use fractions to measure and help conserve freshwater resources.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about given the perimeter, find the side length and area - squares.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about using the four operations with money - word problems.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about multiplication and division with money.

Students in this lesson will learn about, connect and apply the use of area to a real-world problem—creating a planting guide for the garden. Students will determine the square footage of the garden and use this information, along with a planting chart to create their own plan.

Learning Target: I can use dimensional analysis to convert units.

Students will explore different strategies to calculate feet per second to miles per hour.

Students will complete a group activity to find the speed of Barbie's car and convert the units of measure from feet per second to miles per hour.

In this activity, students work with measurement and shapes using live web maps and images of the Earth at various scales using ArcGIS Online. Time required: 2 class periods (100 minutes total).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about using lists to solve multi-step problems with single units (metric capacities) - word problems.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about using pictures to balance a scale (metric units).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about using symbol maps with compound units.

In this lesson, students will take temperature readings in the outdoor classroom, compare them to data from a graph, and discuss the numerical differences between the readings and the data.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about using a scale and subtraction to find weight in grams.

Students develop a physical understanding for the meaning of equality by trying to find equal lengths using rods.

In this lesson, students will build conceptual understanding and fluency in using area and perimeter by measuring and calculating the dimensions of vegetable beds.

How can we use area and multiplication to measure the amount of space an area has?Students will explore the concepts of multiplication and area by measuring rectangular planting beds in the garden.

This is a lesson about the vertical dimension of the atmosphere and includes four activities. Activity 1 Introduces concepts related to distance, including length and height and units of measurement. Students are asked to make comparisons of distances. In activity 2, students learn about the vertical profile of the atmosphere. They work with a graph and plot the heights of objects and the layers of the atmosphere: troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere. In activity 3, students learn about other forms of visual displays using satellite imagery. They compare images of the same weather feature, a hurricane, using two different images from MODIS and CALIPSO. One image is looking down on the hurricane from space, the other looks through the hurricane to display a profile of the hurricane. Activity 4 reinforces the concept of the vertical nature of the atmosphere. Students will take a CALIPSO satellite image that shows a profile of the atmosphere and use this information to plot mountains and clouds on their own graph of the atmosphere. The recommended order for the activities is to complete the first two activities on day one, and the second two activities on day two. Each day will require approximately 1 to 1.5 hours.

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