Metric ruler triple beam balance graduated cylinder thermometer lab junior high

Practicing using lab tools, measurements, and the metric system has never been more fun! Your students will be fully engaged and learning when they complete this engaging hands-on lab!

This has been a great way for my students to learn and retain the critical skill of measuring with common lab tools. Students travel to various stations to get actual hands-on practice with various measurement tools they will encounter throughout the year during labs.

Hands on manipulatives, graphic interface, and questioning strategies differentiate for different learning styles. Not only does this make future labs go smoother but it prepares your students for common questions found on standardized tests.

This lab is fun for all students, but especially engages kinesthetic learners. Addresses many common core and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Only common science lab equipment is required (graduated cylinder, metric ruler, triple beam balance, and a thermometer).

Bundle includes: Student lab sheets, teacher keys, full directions for lab set up. Lesson was created for upper elementary and middle school students and enriches the concepts of mass, volume, length, temperature, Celsius, Fahrenheit, metric system, measurements, graduated cylinder, metric ruler, meter stick, and triple beam balance while reinforcing many common core standards (such as: “Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks.”)

Approximately two to three class periods in length (as a point of reference, I teach a 50-minute class). Created by Mister Science

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Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) addressed in this lesson:

Science and engineering practices

Planning and carrying out investigations to answer questions or test solutions to problems in 6–8 builds on K–5 experiences and progresses to include investigations that use multiple variables and provide evidence to support explanations or design solutions.

MP.5 Use appropriate tools strategically. (4-ESS2-1)

4.MD.A.1 Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units

The standards above are covered when students use specific lab tools to answer questions and make accurate and precise measurements of liquids, solids, temperature, and length.

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