Name: Tylar McGill

Cooperating Teacher: Mrs. Rosenmeier

Title: Mathematics - Nonstandard units of length

Standards of Learning:

VA 1.9 The student will use nonstandard units to measure the lengths, weight/mass, and volume.

Understand: The student will use the nonstandard materials to measure lengths and heights.

Objective: The students will understand how to measure lengths and heights using nonstandard
measuring units.

Assessment:

Oral discussion on the rug about the use of the nonstandard measuring units..


Materials:

Nonstandard activity recording sheet
Dry Erase Markers
Writing lined paper
Cubes
Paperclips
Glue sticks
Shoes
Items around the classroom to measure
Pencils
Crayons

Procedure:

12:15
1. Pass out activity recording sheet, name and crayon
2. Students to rug and introduce lesson.
3. Students estimate the length of teacher in shoes.
4. A student will be chosen at random to model measuring the teacher in shoes.
5. Students record actual foot prints long
6. Students partner up, estimate and measure each other in footprints.
7. Students return to seats and color pictures.
12:40
1. Call students back to rug
2. Show next activity recording sheet
3. Explain and model the use of paper clips, cubes, glue sticks and shoes to measure a desk,
reading book and pencil.
4. Students and partner go to stations to measure using the nonstandard measuring tools.
5. Choose other objects to measure.
1:05
1. Call students back to rug with recording sheets and allow sharing time.
a. What did you notice about the measuring tools
b. Were any of your answers DIFFERENT
c. Which items were the same as the others around you and which were different.