Description

SKCS2: Students will have the computation and estimation skills necessary for analyzing data and following scientific explanations.
a.   Use whole numbers for counting, identifying, and describing things and experiences.
b.   Make quantitative estimates of nonstandard measurements (blocks, counters) and check by measuring.

Essential Questions

How do we measure?

Why are some measurements different from others?

Lesson Plans

Measuring with Teacher's Foot Lesson

NASA's KSNN What Does a Scientist Do Lesson

• Math Monsters: Estimation- United Streaming video introducing strategies of estimation and measurement. Includes teacher's guide. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• Peep and the Big Wide World: Bridge the Gap/Meeting Halfway- United Streaming/ PBS video Peep and the Big Wide World in which Peep must use measuring and estimation to build a bridge. Includes teacher's guide. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• Mathica's Mathshop: All-Star Elf- United Streaming video in which Mathica develops her measurement skills as an All-star judge. Includes activities on data management and interpreting graphs. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• Meeting Numbers: The Vocabulary of Relationship: The Big Story- United Streaming video in which three friends go in the woods and try to discover who has the "biggest" creature. Includes activities on perspective, weight, and other measurements. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• Discovering Math: Measurement- United Streaming video that introduces students to properties of measurement. Includes teacher's guide and black line masters. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• TLC Elementary School: Problem Solving: Math Volume I- United Streaming/ TLC video that introduces students concept of numbers and measurement. Includes teacher's guide. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• Video explaining the difference between actual length and estimated measurement.

• NLVM's Virtual Manipulatives: Measurement.

• Kidspiration: Science Templates- Pictographs

• SmartBoard: Non-Standard Measurement Notebook Activity

• SmartBoard: Non-Standard Measures: Animals Notebook Activity

• SmartBoard: Non-Standard Measures: Food Notebook Activity

• SmartBoard: Non-Standard Measures: Objects Notebook Activity

• SmartBoard: Non-Standard Measures: Toys Notebook Activity

• SmartBoard: Non-Standard Measures: Transport Notebook Activity