Time To Measure!

Need some differentiation ideas for your measuring unit? Try some of these resources.

Try to balance the scales:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/animal.html

This game tests your knowledge of angles: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/bathroom.html

Measure to the nearest fraction of an inch:
http://www.hbschool.com/activity/elab2004/gr5/25.html

Super lesson plan for lengths and heights: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/pdf/measure_lengths/measure_lengths.pdf

Another Discovery Education plan-converting from standard to metric. http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/pdf/metricworld/metricworld.pdf

Metric scavenger hunt:
http://www.hbschool.com/teacher_resources/math/grade_03/g3a_measure.html
Interactive movies and activities:
http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/byersjmath/geometry/students/coverpg.html

Scroll down to find some interesting measurement investigations involving lunch:
http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/elemath/projects.html

Lesson using measurement and oranges:
http://www.fi.edu/sln/school/tfi/fall96/oranges.html

Measurement webquest:
http://oops.bizland.com/gothedistance.html

Metric Interactive course:
http://www.learner.org/interactives/metric/

nrich time and measurment:
http://nrich.maths.org/public/monthindex.php?year=2008&month=05&showfulltier=yes

Bitesize lesson: measures
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/shape_space_measures.shtml

elearning online courses-scroll to find measurement related :
http://www.e-learningforkids.org/courses.html

Olympic measurement webquest:
http://www.uni.edu/schneidj/webquests/fall04/olympics/index.html