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These 20 images give students practice measuring the height and width of various pictures with paperclips. Ready to print, each sheet contains a spot for students to write in their measurement of the pencil, ice cream treat, insect, car, and many other common objects. This is excellent practice for students to explore measurement, what aspects […]

In this session, students will begin to explore the questions „What can be measured?” and „What does it mean to measure something?” Students identify measurable properties of objects such as weight, surface area, and volume, and discuss which metric units are appropriate for measuring these properties.

Kindergartners measure each others’ heights using large building blocks as the unit of measure. For their measurement technique, they tally how many blocks high each student is.