This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 2nd Grade Math content.

This resource accompanies our Rethink 1st Grade Math Measurement & Data unit. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning. 

This unit was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 2nd Grade Math for Measurement & Data.

In this activity students will measure themselves and compare measurements within one measuring system using paper strips and measuring tools. They will look at the relationships between measurements and make and test hypotheses. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

In this lesson, students develop estimation strategies by applying prior knowledge of length and using mental benchmarks.

Students plant sunflower seeds in plastic cups, and once germinated, expose them to varying light or soil moisture conditions. They measure growth of the seedlings every few days using non-standard measurement (inch cubes). After a few weeks, they compare the growth of plants exposed to the different conditions and make bar comparative graphs, which they analyze to draw conclusions about the needs of plants.

Who really cares about precise measurement anyway?  Students will read a current article about international disagreements about measurement. Then students will find a record of the longest or shortest of something. They can share this information with classmates on a poster, bulletin board, or in a booklet.  They may want to identify the location of this record on a world map as well.  Students should give the length measurement in both customary and metric units and be able to discuss the relationship between the units. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

For this assessement task, students make reasonable estimates for different parts of their body and choose the meassurement tool they feel is best to use to measure their body parts. A scoring rubric is included.

This 2 unit of measurement lessons explores length in US customary units through 12 hands-on activities and 2 worksheets.

This 2 unit of measurement lessons explores length in metric units through 3 hands-on activities.

For this assessement task, students estimate the measurement of labeled objects around the classroom and measure them using centimeters, inches, feet, or meters.

Students choose tools to measure the length of objects and distances in the school environment.  They explore the relationship between the size of the unit used and the number of units in the measure.  They discuss which tools are most appropriate to the situation. They consider what is the largest length or distance in their school environment that they can measure and what is the smallest object or distance they can measure in their school environment.  They may need to problem solve using the available tools.  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

In this assessment task, students select their own measuring tools (and units) to measure various parts of their body.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach first graders about how big is a meter?.

In this lesson students engineer ramps and race monster trucks. Students estimate and measure distances traveled and then organize and visually represent this data in a graph.

This document is the About the Cluster document created by the authors of the NC2ML Instructional Frameworks. Read this document prior to teaching the cluster in order to get insight into the clustering of the standards, mathematics to be taught, and important considerations.

This document is not remixable since the document has been written by creators of the NC2ML Instructional Frameworks.

After the whole class looks at maps and globes and explores legends/keys on the map and how symbols represent places/objects/meanings of drawings/details on the map, all students will work together in small groups to collaboratively draw a map of the school.  Each group of 3-4 students will create their own map of the school.  Then as a class, students will analyze and critique the maps and find the positive attributes of each map.  Then higher-level students will take the assignment further by analyzing the layout/structure/plan of the school and deciding what changes would make the school better.  They will then work collaboratively to create a map of a “new school” which makes changes to their school to make it more eco-friendly, easier to get around, a better layout for classes, with additions that make it a more enjoyable and functional place to be, etc.  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about rounding to the nearest 2 decimal places, or the hundredths place.

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers.A Common Formative Assessment (CFA) provides a snapshot of current student understanding. It serves as a checkpoint, and may be used to guide future whole and small group instruction. This CFA addresses 2nd grade, Cluster 6 standards.