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.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about adding or subtracting lengths in one step.
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 measure and compare lengths using standard metric length units and non-standard lengths units; relate measurement to unit size.
For this task, students work in pairs to plant bean plants, measure their growth and record their measurement. Students record their data on a line plot and discuss patterns in their line plot.
Students measure the length of a gummy worm with a ruler. Students stretch the gummy worm as far as he/she can and measure the stretched gummy worm. Students identify the difference in length between the original and stretched gummy worm and record their findings.
For this task, students measure the span of their hands and use the data collected to create a line plot of their class measurements.
In this assessment task, students solve a word problem involving length.
With this assessment task, students solve a word problem involving length.
With this assessment task, students solve a measurement problem involving differences of lengths.
Kindergartners measure each other's height using large building blocks, then visit a 2nd and a 4th grade class to measure those students. They can also measure adults in the school community. Results are displayed in age-appropriate bar graphs (paper cut-outs of miniature building blocks glued on paper to form a bar graph) comparing the different age groups. The activities that comprise this lesson help students develop the concepts and vocabulary to describe, in a non-ambiguous way, how height changes as children get older. The introduction to graphing provides an important foundation for both creating and interpreting graphs in future years.
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.
With this assessment task, students compare their foot to that of a giant and find the difference in lengths.
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.
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.
Children create top hats out of paper by reading or listening to directions that use simple terms from geometry. After making the hat, they measure their heights with and without the hat, and then take a picture wearing the hat.
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.