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This is lesson 2 of 6 lessons focused around developing a mathematical community at the beginning of the school year. While this lesson meets standard NC.K.MD.2, its primary goal is for students to learn how to work with a partner on a task. A secondary goal is to begin establishing norms for how students work together during math class.

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers.  In this lesson, students first estimate the size and distance between their own facial features and then draw a self-portrait based on their estimates. Next students accurately measure and draw the same features and then compare the results.

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This assessment may be used for instructional or assessment purposes. A scoring rubric is included.

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers.In this series of activities, students use linear measurments to compare their heights and foot lengths to Abraham's Lincoln's measurements.  Provided in this packet are math activities, suggested read alouds, cross-curricular activities, and pictures of the lessons in action.Remix this lesson to include your own extension ideas. 

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers.This file contains a set of 4 tasks (including scoring rubric and student recording sheet).  The tasks may be used for instruction or assessment. The focus of these tasks is on solving problems that involve length measurements.Remix this resource to include student work samples or addtional tasks.

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers.  In this lesson, partners use both centimeters and inches to measure objects to develop their understanding of the relationship between the length of a unit and the resulting measurement. With teacher guidance, they will solidify their understanding that the objects themselves do not change when measured using different units. Students should have had multiple experiences measuring using standard units before attempting this lesson.

An interactive clock that will allow you to change the time in whatever minute/hour intervals you want. It will also give the digital and analog time simultaneously.

Students practice telling time on five-minute intervals on both analog and digital clocks. Class activities, learning center activities, and worksheets are provided.

Students practice telling time on the hour and half-hour on both analog and digital clocks. Learning center activities and worksheets are provided.

This lesson is a general introduction to clocks and telling time. Students practice telling time on the hour on both analog and digital clocks. Class activities, learning center activities, and worksheets are provided.

For this interactive, students help Burt the Bird fix the clocks. Students pick the clock which shows the correct time. There are four different difficulties to choose from, including half-hour, quarter-hour five minutes, and minutes. Please note you will need to have flash enabled on your browser to use the resource.

Students strengthen their communicate skills about measurements by learning the meaning of base units and derived units, including speed one of the most common derived units (distance/time). Working in groups, students measure the time for LEGO MINDSTORMS(TM) NXT robots to move a certain distance. The robots are started and stopped via touch sensors and programmed to display the distance traveled. Using their collected data, students complete a worksheet to calculate the robots' (mean/average) speeds at given motor powers.

This is a lesson to help introduce types of angles and their measures. With this lesson, students are provided new information and then given the opportunity to practice that new information through note-taking, exploration, creation, movement, and song. 

This is a lesson about the vertical dimension of the atmosphere and includes four activities. Activity 1 Introduces concepts related to distance, including length and height and units of measurement. Students are asked to make comparisons of distances. In activity 2, students learn about the vertical profile of the atmosphere. They work with a graph and plot the heights of objects and the layers of the atmosphere: troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere. In activity 3, students learn about other forms of visual displays using satellite imagery. They compare images of the same weather feature, a hurricane, using two different images from MODIS and CALIPSO. One image is looking down on the hurricane from space, the other looks through the hurricane to display a profile of the hurricane. Activity 4 reinforces the concept of the vertical nature of the atmosphere. Students will take a CALIPSO satellite image that shows a profile of the atmosphere and use this information to plot mountains and clouds on their own graph of the atmosphere. The recommended order for the activities is to complete the first two activities on day one, and the second two activities on day two. Each day will require approximately 1 to 1.5 hours.

Students learn the history of the waterwheel and common uses for water turbines today. They explore kinetic energy by creating their own experimental waterwheel from a two-liter plastic bottle. They investigate the transformations of energy involved in turning the blades of a hydro-turbine into work, and experiment with how weight affects the rotational rate of the waterwheel. Students also discuss and explore the characteristics of hydroelectric plants.

This classroom activity helps students understand how the angle of the Sun affects temperatures around the globe. After experimenting with a heat lamp and thermometers at differing angles, students apply what they learned to explain temperature variations on Earth. The printable six-page handout includes a series of inquiry-based questions to get students thinking about what they already know about temperature patterns, detailed experiment directions and a worksheet that helps students use the experiment results to gain a deeper understanding of seasonal temperature changes and why Antarctica is always so cold.

For this assessment, students assessed on their ability to measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate measuring tools.

For this assessment task, students draw and use a number line to find a secret number.

A park ranger needs to build a zipline to drop food supplies to her mentor park ranger at the bottom of a gorge. Unfortunately, she does not have the instructions to build the zipline according to the proper specifications. Without directions, she is unsure of the correct angles to attach her zipline to each tree. Additionally, she needs to figure out how to open the chute to drop the food supplies. Challenge: Create a zip line that will release from her bucket (paper cup) the food supplies (represented by a marble) onto the target (placed 5/8 of the way down the zipline) before the gear reaches the opposite end of the zip line.