Kick Off Your 1st & 2nd Grade Measurement Unit With Us!

Are you getting ready to kick off your measurement unit? Are you looking for a fun way to introduce your students to formal measurement and the different units used for measuring length? If so, you’re in the right place! We’ve got the perfect tool to introduce (or reacquaint) your students with inches, feet, yards, and more!

This resource download consists of an interactive teaching/instructional slide deck with loads of instructional material, pictures, checks for understanding, and more! It’s everything you need to teach that first lesson on measuring length with formal units.

How Long is an Inch? A Mile? A Centimeter? 

It’s a common question that pops up in the elementary classroom, and this slide deck is exactly what you need to answer it. In this instructional slide deck, your students will learn and practice concepts such as:

• Determining which customary measurement tools to use to measure objects
• The different units of measurement for measuring length (customary & metric)
• Identifying measurement tools (measuring tape, yardstick, ruler)
• Estimation strategies for units of measurement (metric and customary)
• Determining which metric measurement tools to use to measure objects

As you can see, this resource is packed with learning opportunities and will make the perfect opening lesson for any Measurement Unit Plans you’re working on.

Download, Project, and Teach!

This downloadable teaching resource is available as an Interactive Google Slides Activity. To get your new resource, click the download button. You will be prompted to make your copy. From there, project the slides in presentation mode and start teaching!

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and Teach Starter Collaborator.

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