MEASURMENTS KIT

Students gain experience taking scientific measurements using metric units and become familiar with common equivalent measures. Nine real-world activities lead students through the concepts of measuring with accuracy; learning metric place values; estimating metric lengths, distances, areas, masses, and volumes; measuring volume in liters, square measure, cubic measure; identifying metric measures in our world; identifying mass vs weight; measuring by displacement; and taking temperatures in Celsius and Fahrenheit. Includes extension activity suggestions, student exercises, and assessment activities for testing understanding.
Grades 5-8