This grade 5 unit of measurement lessons explores volume through 6 hands-on activities and 5 worksheets.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about converting meters to centimeters.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about converting kilometers to meters.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about converting meters to millimeters.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about converting centimeters to millimeters with decimals.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about comparing meters, centimeters, and millimeters.

Students will answer one-step measurement conversions within the metric system for weight, length, and capacity.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about mixed adding and subtracting of capacities (english units).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fourth graders an overview of capacity with compound units - word problems.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fifth graders an overview of metric capacity operations.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about distance between items.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about solving multi-step distance problems.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about multi-step compound unit subtraction - word problems.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about multi-directional conversions.

This lesson accompanies the North Carolina children's book, "My NC from A to Z" which celebrates pride of place, and creates connections to North Carolina's rich African American heritage. In this lesson, students solve a problem by creating a chair according to specific measurable attributes with at least three to five elements that are similar to the designs of Thomas Day.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about which compound unit is longest? (english units).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about which compound unit is shortest? (english units).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fifth graders an overview of conversion among units of measure for capacity (english units).

Purpose: Engages students and introduces elements needed for building a playground.

In “Playground Palooza”, students will take the role of a playground designer responding to a request for a new playground at the school. Students will learn about numerical patterns, reading and writing decimals, rounding decimals, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals, converting measurements, volume, measuring volume, relating volume, coordinate planes, and attributes of 2D figures. Students will determine the total area of the new playground, determine the total area for each structure you want included on your playground, determine the volume of sand needed for the sandbox, use at least three playground structures, create a table of equipment and materials including company name, cost, quantity, and totals, create a coordinate system to display the center point for each structures or area on the playground, and submit a blueprint of their playground design.

***NOTE
This PBL was created before NC adopted the NC standards for Math. Therefore this PBL also addresses: rounding decimals.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 5th Grade Math.