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Measurement projects for Microsoft Word
Scaling Up Candy Bar Project - Scale Factor Project
In this project, the students will use scale factor to enlarge a candy wrapper. The final project will include an enlarged colored candy wrapper along with follow-up questions about the project. They will also have to solve a series of problems involving scale factor. If they finish early, there is an extension to the project that involves using the scale factor with the nutritional information. *I would recommend to create your own centimeter grid paper.
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6th - 8th
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Surface Area Project: Rectangular Solids and Cylinders
Students will bring in a box (and cylinder) from home and use it to find surface area (using 2 different methods), volume and to create a net. Students will also review measurement and use appropriate units (squared and cubed).
This project will enable the students to actually understand the surface area formula. (instead of just plugging numbers into a formula) They will not only use the formula, but also calculate the area of each of the individual 6 faces of a rectangular solid (and parts o
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5th - 8th
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Fraction Recipe Book Project
This is an activity I used to reinforce fraction operations in my 6th grade math class. The students created a class recipe book by each bringing in three of their favorite recipes. They had to include a list of ingredients, as well as instructions for doubling, tripling, or halving the recipe. They had a lot of fun designing their book covers and pages, adding in cooking tips and kitchen advice, and assembling the class book. They each received a copy to take home- and many of them brought
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5th - 8th
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Marble Roller Coaster Activity
Building and designing a marble roller coaster.
This is a great activity for motion and forces for middle and high school students.
Students use foam pipe insulation to design a roller coaster with hills, a loop and a curve.
Students must problem solve to overcome the forces of gravity and centripetal forces to get a marble to the end of the track.
Students also measure and calculate speed and acceleration at different points within the roller coaster.
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6th - 12th
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Scale Drawing Project
**Updated** - Now with how to pics!!!
This is editable and includes both the scale factor (enlargement) as well as reduction.
This includes the project details to a scale drawing project that I created for my middle grade math students. The students are to pic a picture and create a scale drawing using the picture the have chosen. We found magazine pictures to pick out our favorites! Afterward, copy the picture and have the students create grid lines on the paper, that will work out with t
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Grades:
5th - 10th
What would Barbie Look like if she were Real?
Ever wondered what Barbie would look like if she were real? Now you can work with your students to find out!
Part 3
In order to save you and your students time, I measured various segments of Barbie's actual doll measurements. Students can use their measurements from Parts 1 and 2 of the Human Body Proportion Lab (available on TCP) OR measure their height or foot size to determine the SCALE FACTOR between their body and the doll's body. Using the SF, students will determine Barbie's measure
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7th - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Castle Building Quarter Project Area, Perimeter, Surface Area, Volume
The castle building project includes instructions, a guided measurements chart for students to fill out, and a rubric for easy grading of math content and creativity. The project requires students to build a castle. The students must then find the area and perimeter of triangles, squares, rectangles, and circles. It also has students find the surface area and volume of cylinders and rectangular prisms. The students must include at least one of each of the shapes in their castle and perform me
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6th - 10th
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Geocaching Project
Students learn about the global treasure hunt called Geocaching in the intro PowerPoint. The project has them build and hide caches on campus, and log their coordinates using several GPS devices that I have gathered through the years (I started with only 1 the first year).
The culmination of the project is to have each class period search for caches hidden by a different class period.
I also encourage students to create and account on geocaching.com, download the Geocaching Ap (available on t
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Design Your Dream House Math Project: Area, Perimeter, Angles, Scale Factor, Etc
I taught an Occupational Course of Study class this year and developed this project for them to learn and/or review area and perimeter while also introducing them to scale factors, angles, geometric design, and even the skills necessary to create a sales document on the computer. Please see the preview to see all that's included in the project.Even though I designed this to be a hands-on project for high school kids on a third to fifth grade level, this could easily be incorporated for middle o
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Grades:
5th - 11th
Dream House Project - Geometry/Measurement
This is a good project to bring in real life models to review geometry as well as measurement for perimeter and area. I use this closer to the end of the year and give students multiple weeks to finish assignment. You can also modify this by changing some of the requirements for special education students as well as add more challenging skills required for those higher students.
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4th - 6th
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TANGRAM TASK - Calculating Area of Composite Figures
In this performance task, students use tangrams to create an animal and its habitat. Then students are required to calculate the area of this composite figure and then write about it. Great visual math/art display for open house or STEM night.
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5th - 8th
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Customary and Metric Measurement Olympics!
This is an activity that has students estimate and measure using both customary and metric measurement of weight and length. Teachers may use objects of their choosing for the events, such as a paper plate and heavy plastic plate for the discus event, a cotton ball and softball for the shotput event, and two various sized balls for the laying long roll. Students will have a blast participating in the three kinesthetic events! Students also collect score data by analyzing classmate's scores and p
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3rd - 7th
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Dream House Math Project
This math project allows students to get creative, have fun, and use many math skills at the same time! Students will draw a floor plan of their dream home, research different types of flooring, calculate how many square feet of space the have in each room, and calculate how much it would cost to put floors down in their home! My students LOVED IT and didn't realize how much math they were doing at the same time!!
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Mars Landing Module STEM Challenge (Egg Drop) - Middle or High School Physics
This is a multi-step, usually multi-week Engineering Project that I did in 8th grade physics class for many years, and it was ALWAYS super fun and a highlight of the year. It accompanies a Physics Unit on Mass, Forces, Gravity, and KE & PE Energy, and is best to incorporate project into a 4-6 week unit. It can easily be adapted for grades 6-12, varying the concepts of physics that are expected to be demonstrated.The students design a "landing module" to theoretically land on Mars, while succ
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7th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-PS3-2
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
Create Your Own Amusement Park!
This 10 page project allows students to create their own amusement park!
This activity includes:
- Basic questions about the park
- 5 Ride descriptions
- 3 Food Truck descriptions w/ menus & prices
- 2 restaurant description w/ menus & prices
- A math page asking questions about ticket price, employee salary, profit, and area and perimeter of park
- A map with map key
- 2 billboard designs
- 1 ticket design
AND MORE! This allows students to think creatively in order to design a reali
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3rd - 6th
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Elapsed Time Project: My Ideal Week of School
Have your students ever complained about the schedule? Up too early? Here too late? Or are they just tired of the same old routine? Now is their chance to design their very own ideal week of school using what they know about elapsed time!
Students are given a list of requirements for their week of school and must create a schedule for their ideal week. An optional template is also attached to help students organize their ideas and get started when planning their day.
***FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE
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3rd - 4th
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Kite Project
Students build and fly their own kite out of household materials. They research and design a kite of a chosen shape. You may assign different shapes or allow students to choose.
Included in this project are a rubric, student handout/instructions, student reflection questions, and a group evaluation.
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8th - 12th
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Scale City Design Project
For this project students are tasked with creating a scale city. They will create a 2-D blueprint of their city, as well as, a 3-D model. With my class I had them create the 2-D model on grid line chart paper. Students also must write a paragraph (or two) describing the amenities of the city and a billboard advertisement to attract people to their town. Students will present their designs to the class (planning committee). The group with the highest average grade is considered to have won the bi
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5th - 7th
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Geometry Project: Creating a Stage using Area, Perimeter, Surface Area & Volume
This is a fun way to let students apply their understanding of Geometric measurements.
They are asked to work with a trapezoid, cylinder, sphere, pyramid, rectangular prism & cube to find area, perimeter, surface area, circumference and volume of different 2D and 3D shapes.
A link to a website will get you started with 3 great lesson sheets to get them thinking about the different measurements needed to distinguish between perimeter, area, surface area and volume.
Following the work
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6th - 10th
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Energy Drink Challenge- Volume and Surface Area of a Cylinder
This is an open-ended, critical thinking task that gets students to think about the relationship between surface area and volume. It is a rich task with multiple entry points to allow students with varying degrees of skill a chance to challenge themselves.
This assignment can be incorporated nicely into a language program- particularly elements of media design.
A brief teacher guide and assessment tips are provided.
**PLEASE NOTE** This assignment was designed in Canada and uses the metric
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7th - 9th
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Fractionville City Map- Understanding Fractions
This project can be used in a 3rd-4th grade classroom after the students have learned about fractions and how to model what fractions look like. This activity provides another visual, besides pizza and pie, to help understand what fractions are and what they look like.Students will create a town map. Each of the 8 streets in the town will be divided into sections. Third Street will have 3 sections, Fourth Street will have 4 sections, etc. Creating each street will help student divide sections fo
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3rd - 4th
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Create an Arcade Game Project - Applying Geometry and Measurement
This is a highly engaging and creative project, inspired by the concept of "Caine's Arcade" (on youtube), that allows your students to show what they know about geometry and measurement. Students will build an original arcade game that includes shapes with specific measurements (such as a certain perimeter, area, circumference, etc...). Then, they get to invite students from other classrooms in your school to come and play their games. I always throw in an extra credit incentive for my top "arc
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5th - 7th
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Coordinate Plane City Activity
Students will create their own city by plotting points on a coordinate grid. This activity can be used to practice Geometry skills. Students can practice:
-plotting points in the 4 quadrants
-finding the area and perimeter of shapes
-finding the distance between two points
...and much more!
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5th - 8th
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CCSS:
Parabolic Bridge Project
The purpose of this project is to give your students a deeper understanding of the applications and use of quadratic equations or parabolas in the real world. During this project the students will analyze, design and construct scale model, parabolic-shaped bridges. The students will calculate the quadratic equations associated with each of bridges they choose to design. I always cut out the wood sections for their bridge designs and have them paint and assemble the sections. I complete this
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9th - 12th
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